Introduction vi Joan Livingstone John Ploof Piecework: Home, Factory, Studio, Exhibit 1(30) Maureen P. Sherlock Labor, History, and Sweatshops in the New Global Economy 31(20) Alan Howard That Word Which Means Smuggling Across Borders, Incorporated: The Multipled Suit 51(8) J. Morgan Puett Iain Kerr Work Now 59(8) Karen Reimer Machine Dreams 67(14) Helen Haejin Cho Can You See Us Now? ¿Ya Nos Pueden Ver? 81(8) subRosa Lace Curtains for Troy 89(16) Margo Mensing Damask 105(8) Anne Wilson Amazwi Abesifazane: Voices of Women 113(18) Carol Becker Amazwi Abesifazane: Reclaiming the Emotional and Public Self 131(12) Andries Botha Visible Links 143(8) Lara Lepionka I mean this 151(8) Darrel Morris Stitching Women's Lives: Sujuni and Khatwa from Bihar, India 159(22) Viji Srinivasan Dr. Skye Morrison Laila Tyabji Dorothy Caldwell Inventory of Labor 181(8) Barbara Layne Sue Rowley Signifiers 189(8) Park Chambers Home Work 197(22) Lou Cabeen What are you making? 219(8) Lisa Clark from Prototypes for New Understanding 227(2) Brian Jungen Sew Your Own Stump Flag 229(6) Susie Brandt from Trials and Turbulence 235(4) Pepon Osorio Torn and Mended: Textile Actions at Ground Zero and Beyond 239(16) Nancy Gildart Ada Lovelace and the Loom of Life 255(10) Sadie Plant Hands on Spots 265(8) Lia Cook Biting and Chewing in Contemporary Art 273(8) Alison Ferris from Soundsuits 281(2) Nick Cave Laboured Cloth: Translations of Hybridity in Contemporary Art 283(12) Janis Jefferies Big Boy, Leisure Lady, Gay Victorians 295(2) Yinka Shonibare from Cities on the Move 297(2) Kimsooja Material with a Memory 299(16) Mary Jane Jacob An Aesthetic of Blackness: strange and oppositional Aesthetic Inheritances: history worked by hand 315(18) bell hooks from indigo blue 333(4) Ann Hamilton Deco-jamming is Eco-glam! 337(20) Neil MacInnis Judith Leemann Hand Labour and Digital Capitalism at the Chicago Board of Trade 357(12) Ingrid Bachmann Iron Into Lace 369(8) Merrill Mason Artist as Insect 377(16) Kevin Murray Endpapers Christine Tarkowski Contributors 393(5) Acknowledgments 398(1) Credits 399(1) Index 400