Working People of California |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
INTRODUCTION |
1 WORKERS IN CALIFORNIA BEFORE 1900 |
1 Brutal Appetites The Social Relations of the California Mission |
• | Editor's Introduction |
• | Further Reading |
2 Chinese Livelihood in Rural California The Impact of Economic Change, 1860-1880 |
Editor's Introduction |
• | Occupational Structure, 1860 |
• | Occupational Structure, 1870 |
• | Occupational Structure, 1880 |
• | Further Reading |
2 WORKERS AND GROUP IDENTITY |
3 Dishing It Out Waitresses and the Making of Their Unions in San Francisco, 1900-1941 |
Editor'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 |
4 Okies and the Politics of Plain-Folk Americanism |
Editor's Introduction |
• | A Framework of Understandings |
• | Cult of Toughness |
• | A Shifting Populism |
• | Labor's Dilemma |
• | True Americanism |
• | Native Sons |
• | Further Reading |
5 James v. Marinship Trouble on the New Black Frontier |
• | Editor's Introduction |
• | Further Reading |
3 WORKERS ON STRIKE |
6 Racial Domination and Class Conflict in Capitalist Agriculture The Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers' Strike of 1903 |
• | Editor's Introduction |
• | Further Reading |
7 Raiz Fuerte Oral History and Mexicana Farmworkers |
Editor's Introduction |
• | Mrs. Valdez and the 1933 Cotton Strike |
• | Voice and Community |
• | The Community of Mexican Women |
• | The Structure of Memory |
• | Conclusion |
• | Further Reading |
8 The Big Strike |
• | Editor's Introduction |
• | Further Reading |
9 A Promise Fulfilled Mexican Cannery Workers in Southern California |
• | Editor's Introduction |
• | Further Reading |
4 WORKERS AND POLITICS |
10 To Save the Republic The California Workingmen's Party in Humboldt County |
• | Editor's Introduction |
• | Further Reading |
11 Reform, Utopia, and Racism The Politics of California Craftsmen |
Editor's Introduction |
• | Reforms by and for the Working Class |
• | Elements of a Vision |
• | The BTC and the Left |
• | Racism as Self-Defense |
• | Further Reading |
12 Mobilizing the Homefront Labor and Politics in Oakland, 1941-1951 |
• | Editor's Introduction |
• | Further Reading |
5 WORKERS IN POST—WORLD WAR II CALIFORNIA |
13 Cesar Chavez and the Unionization of California Farmworkers |
• | Editor's Introduction |
• | Further Reading |
14 Why Aren't High-Tech Workers Organized? Lessons in Gender, Race, and Nationality from Silicon Valley |
• | Editor's Introduction |
• | Further Reading |
15 Fontana Junkyard of Dreams |
Editor'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 |
Notes |
• | 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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