| 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 |
| 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 |
| • | 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 |
| CONTRIBUTORS |
| CREDITS |