Introduction / Charles Tilly -- The web of contention in eighteenth-century cities / Charles Tilly -- Revolution and the rural community in the eastern Netherlands / Wayne Te Brake -- Contentious gatherings in Lancashire, England, 1750-1830 / Frank Munger -- Industrialism capitalism, conflict, and working class contention in Lancashire, England, 1842 / Brian R. Brown -- Keeping the navvies in line / Samuel Cohn -- Belgian and French workers in nineteenth-century Roubaix / Judy A. Reardon -- Grapes of wrath / Laura L. Frader -- Women's collective action and feminism in France / Louise A. Tilly -- Conclusion / Louise A. Tilly.