iv The Subway and the Overpass
1 Introducing Whitney Pier
2 From farms to heavy industry
3 Ethnicity at the Pier
4 Steel
7 The steelworkers
11 Immigrants and migrants
17 Where they lived
27 Women and their work
31 Benevolent societies
35 Life after work: the social ties
39 The churches of the Pier
53 Whitney Pier schools
59 Pier enterprises
65 The arts
69 Sports
73 The generations 
74 Perspectives on the Pier
75 Ward V by Ron DiPenta
79 Ward VI by Duncan Mackay
83 A Woman's View by Beryl Braithwaite
87 Bibliography
90 Map appendix