Working People of California
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse section1  WORKERS IN CALIFORNIA BEFORE 1900
 collapse section1  Brutal Appetites  The Social Relations of the California Mission
 •Editor's Introduction
 •Further Reading
 collapse section2  Chinese Livelihood in Rural California  The Impact of Economic Change, 1860-1880
 collapse sectionEditor's Introduction
 •Occupational Structure, 1860
 •Occupational Structure, 1870
 •Occupational Structure, 1880
 •Further Reading

 collapse section2  WORKERS AND GROUP IDENTITY
 collapse section3  Dishing It Out  Waitresses and the Making of Their Unions in San Francisco, 1900-1941
 collapse sectionEditor's Introduction
 •Choosing Separatism
 •Victories on the Political Front
 •The Fruits of Solidarity
 •Tactics: Reason, Humor, and Muscle
 •The Compromise of Collective Bargaining
 •Further Reading
 collapse section4  Okies and the Politics of Plain-Folk Americanism
 collapse sectionEditor's Introduction
 •A Framework of Understandings
 •Cult of Toughness
 •A Shifting Populism
 •Labor's Dilemma
 •True Americanism
 •Native Sons
 •Further Reading
 collapse section5  James v. Marinship  Trouble on the New Black Frontier
 •Editor's Introduction
 •Further Reading

 collapse section3  WORKERS ON STRIKE
 collapse section6  Racial Domination and Class Conflict in Capitalist Agriculture  The Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers' Strike of 1903
 •Editor's Introduction
 •Further Reading
 collapse section7  Raiz Fuerte  Oral History and Mexicana Farmworkers
 collapse sectionEditor's Introduction
 •Mrs. Valdez and the 1933 Cotton Strike
 •Voice and Community
 •The Community of Mexican Women
 •The Structure of Memory
 •Conclusion
 •Further Reading
 collapse section8  The Big Strike
 •Editor's Introduction
 •Further Reading
 collapse section9  A Promise Fulfilled  Mexican Cannery Workers in Southern California
 •Editor's Introduction
 •Further Reading

 collapse section4  WORKERS AND POLITICS
 collapse section10  To Save the Republic  The California Workingmen's Party in Humboldt County
 •Editor's Introduction
 •Further Reading
 collapse section11  Reform, Utopia, and Racism  The Politics of California Craftsmen
 collapse sectionEditor's Introduction
 •Reforms by and for the Working Class
 •Elements of a Vision
 •The BTC and the Left
 •Racism as Self-Defense
 •Further Reading
 collapse section12  Mobilizing the Homefront  Labor and Politics in Oakland, 1941-1951
 •Editor's Introduction
 •Further Reading

 collapse section5  WORKERS IN POST—WORLD WAR II CALIFORNIA
 collapse section13  Cesar Chavez and the Unionization of California Farmworkers
 •Editor's Introduction
 •Further Reading
 collapse section14  Why Aren't High-Tech Workers Organized?  Lessons in Gender, Race, and Nationality from Silicon Valley
 •Editor's Introduction
 •Further Reading
 collapse section15  Fontana  Junkyard of Dreams
 collapse sectionEditor's Introduction
 •Fontana Farms
 •Miracle Man
 •The De Luxe War Baby
 •Holocaust in Fontana
 •Milltown Days
 •Drivin' Big Bess Down
 •The Unscrupulous Suitors
 •The Mirage of Redevelopment
 •So What's Left?
 •Further Reading

 collapse sectionNotes
 •INTRODUCTION
 •1 Brutal Appetites The Social Relations of the California Mission
 •2 Chinese Livelihood in Rural California The Impact of Economic Change, 1860-1880
 •3 Dishing It Out Waitresses and the Making of Their Unions in San Francisco, 1900-1941
 •4 Okies and the Politics of Plain-Folk Americanism
 •5 James v. Marinship Trouble on the New Black Frontier
 •6 Racial Domination and Class Conflict in Capitalist Agriculture The Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers' Strike of 1903
 •7 Raiz Fuerte Oral History and Mexicana Farmworkers
 •8 The Big Strike
 •9 A Promise Fulfilled Mexican Cannery Workers in Southern California
 •10 To Save the Republic The California Workingmen's Party in Humboldt County
 •11 Reform, Utopia, and Racism The Politics of California Craftsmen
 •12 Mobilizing the Homefront Labor and Politics in Oakland, 1941-1951
 •13 Cesar Chavez and the Unionization of California Farmworkers
 •14 Why Aren't High-Tech Workers Organized? Lessons in Gender, Race, and Nationality from Silicon Valley
 •15 Fontana Junkyard of Dreams
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