From mission to microchip : a history of the California labor movement / Fred Glass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glass, Fred, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--California--History.

Labor movement.

Labor--California--History.

Labor.

Labor unions--California--History.

Labor unions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (543 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers' rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What's the difference? California has held an exceptional place in the imagination of Americans and immigrants since the Gold Rush, which saw the first of many waves of working people moving to the state to find work. From Mission to Microchip unearths the hidden stories of these people throughout California's history. The difficult task of the state's labor movement has been to overcome perceived barriers such as race, national origin, and language to unite newcomers and natives in their shared interest. As chronicled in this comprehensive history, workers have creatively used collective bargaining, politics, strikes, and varied organizing strategies to find common ground among California's diverse communities and achieve a measure of economic fairness and social justice. This is an indispensible book for students and scholars of labor history and history of the West, as well as labor activists and organizers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface: Why California Labor History?

Acknowledgments

1. Where in California Is Its Labor History?

2. On a Mission: How Work Destroyed Native California

3. Striking Gold

4. "All That Is Solid Melts into Air": Gold Rush San Francisco

5. Work, Leisure, and the Struggle for the Eight-Hour Day

6. Sandlots and Silver Kings: The Workingmen's Party of California

7. Building Paradise: The Making of the Los Angeles Working Class

8. Newspapers, Railroads, and the Los Angeles Labor Movement

9. Land, Machines, and Farm Labor

10. The Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers Strike

11. Building San Francisco

12. Organizing San Francisco

13. Carmen, Women, and Their Unions

14. Otistown: Los Angeles at the Turn of the Century

15. Almost Mayor: Bombs, Ballots, and Fusion Politics

16. Open Shop: California Workers in the Jazz Age

17. Radical Responses to the Great Depression

18. The San Francisco General Strike

19. The CIO: Civil War and Civil Rights

20. Arsenal of Democracy: Integrating Industrial California during World War II

21. "We Called It a Work Holiday": The Oakland General Strike

22. Hollywood to Bakersfield: Poverty in the Valley of Plenty

23. Cold War Prosperity: Labor Becomes "Middle Class"

24. Labor and Politics

25. "Sí Se Puede": The United Farm Workers

26. The Rise of Public Sector Unionism

27. Creating the Conditions for Teaching and Learning to Happen

28. Feminist Collective Bargaining Meets the Civil Service

29. The Decline of Manufacturing Unionism

30. Justice for Janitors: Organizing Immigrant Workers

31. Teachers, Nurses, and Firefighters: The Alliance for a Better California

32. Labor and the Community: Reclaiming California's Future

Afterword: A Place in the Sun

List of Labor Organizations and Acronyms

Bibliographic Note

Sources

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520963344

0520963342

OCLC:

933211570