Working People of California |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
INTRODUCTION |
1 WORKERS IN CALIFORNIA BEFORE 1900 |
1 Brutal Appetites The Social Relations of the California Mission |
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 |
4 Okies and the Politics of Plain-Folk Americanism |
5 James v. Marinship Trouble on the New Black Frontier |
3 WORKERS ON STRIKE |
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 |
4 WORKERS AND POLITICS |
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 |
5 WORKERS IN POST—WORLD WAR II CALIFORNIA |
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 |
Notes |
CONTRIBUTORS |
CREDITS |