Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Houston's working class and the origins of organized labor in the Bayou City
  • How it all began : Houston, labor, oil, and working at Mr. Hughes's place
  • Labor at Hughes Tool, 1929-1934 : hard times, Jim Crow, unions, and Uncle Sam
  • Industrial democracy comes to the monarchy of Hughes street : the Wagner Act, the CIO, and Hughes Tool, 1935-1940
  • Jim Crow wearing steel-toed shoes and safety glasses : Hughes Tool's race-based unionism, 1940-1943
  • The battle for union security and civil rights : labor's war at Hughes Tool, 1943-1946
  • The Independent Metal Workers Union era, 1946-1961
  • No gold watch for Jim Crow's retirement.