pt. I. Supply, Demand, and Design (1700-1865)
1. Demand and Production
2. Entrepreneurial Efforts in Britain and Elsewhere
3. Growing Pains: Expanding Industry in the Early Nineteenth Century
4. Design, Society, and Standards
pt. II. Arts, Crafts, and Machines (1866-1914)
5. The Equality of the Arts
6. The Joy of Work
7. Mechanization and Industry
pt. III. After the World War I (1918-1944): Moderne, Industry, and Utopias
8. Paris and Art Moderne Before and After World War I
9. The "First Machine Age" in Europe
10. Art, Design, and Industry in the United States
pt. IV. Humanism and Luxury: International Modernism and Mass Culture After World War II, 1945-1960
11. International Modernism: From Theory to Practice
12. Design and Mass Appeal: A Culture of Consumption
pt. V. Progress, Protest, and Pluralism 1960-2000
13. New Materials, New Products
14. Dimensions of Mass Culture
15. Politics, Pluralism, and Postmodernism
16. Design in Context: An Act of Balance.