Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles / Grace Heilman Stimson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stimson, Grace Heilman, Author.

Series:

Publications of the Institute of Industrial Relations

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (552 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

TABLES

I. Antecedents of the Labor Movement

II. Labor Ventures into Politics

III. Genesis of the Labor Movement

IV. The Noble Order

V. Union against the Chinese

VI. Labor Grows with Los Angeles

VII. Trouble on the Water Front

VIII. Aftermath of the Boom

IX. The "Big Strike"

X. Strength through Unity

XI. The Political Dilemma of the Early 1890's

XII. On to Washington

XIII. The Pullman Strike

XIV. Progress and Decline

XV. Reawakening of the Labor Movement

XVI. Labor and Socialism

XVII. The Rising Tide of Conflict

XVIII. Labor's Counteroffensive

XIX. Ascendance of the Open Shop

XX. Upheaval on the Labor Front

XXI. The "Crime of the Century"

XXII. Reactions and Aftermath

XXIII. Los Angeles: City of the Open Shop

Appendixes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520349377

0520349377

OCLC:

1198931473