From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement

Contents\nList of Illustrations\nPreface: Why California Labor History?\nAcknowledgments\nPart I: Before the Beginning\n1. Where in California Is Its Labor History?\n2. On a Mission: How Work Destroyed Native California\nPart II: Early Days\n3. Striking Gold\n4. “All That Is Solid Melts into Air”: Gold Rush San Francisco\n5. Work, Leisure, and the Struggle for the Eight-Hour Day\n6. Sandlots and Silver Kings: The Workingmen’s Party of California\n7. Building Paradise: The Making of the Los Angeles Working Class\n8. Newspapers, Railroads, and the Los Angeles Labor Movement\n9. Land, Machines, and Farm Labor\n10. The Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers Strike\nPart III: From Pride of Craft to Industrial Unionism\n11. Building San Francisco\n12. Organizing San Francisco\n13. Carmen, Women, and Their Unions\n14. Otistown: Los Angeles at the Turn of the Century\n15. Almost Mayor: Bombs, Ballots, and Fusion Politics\n16. Open Shop: California Workers in the Jazz Age\nPart IV: Divisions in the Growing House of Labor\n17. Radical Responses to the Great Depression\n18. The San Francisco General Strike\n19. The CIO: Civil War and Civil Rights\n20. Arsenal of Democracy: Integrating Industrial California during World War II\n21. “We Called It a Work Holiday”: The Oakland General Strike\n22. Hollywood to Bakersfield: Poverty in the Valley of Plenty\nPart V: The Era of Business Unionism\n23. Cold War Prosperity: Labor Becomes “Middle Class”\n24. Labor and Politics\n25. “Sí Se Puede”: The United Farm Workers\n26. The Rise of Public Sector Unionism\n27. Creating the Conditions for Teaching and Learning to Happen\n28. Feminist Collective Bargaining Meets the Civil Service\nPart VI: Reinventing California Labor\n29. The Decline of Manufacturing Unionism\n30. Justice for Janitors: Organizing Immigrant Workers\n31. Teachers, Nurses, and Firefighters: The Alliance for a Better California\n32. Labor and the Community: Reclaiming California’s Future\nAfterword: A Place in the Sun\nList of Labor Organizations and Acronyms\nBibliographic Note\nSources\nIndex