From mission to microchip : a history of the California labor movement /

"There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers' rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What's t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glass, Fred (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Temas:
Labor movement > California > History.
Labor > California > History.
Labor unions > California > History.
Mouvement ouvrier > Californie > Histoire.
Travail > Californie > Histoire.
Syndicats > Californie > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Labor
Labor movement
Labor unions
California
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Where in California is its labor history?
  • On a mission: how work destroyed native California
  • Striking gold
  • All that is solid melts into air?: Gold Rush San Francisco
  • Work, leisure, and the struggle for the eight-hour work day
  • Sandlots and silver kings: the workingmen's party of California
  • Building paradise: the making of the Los Angeles working class
  • Newspapers, railroads, and the Los Angeles labor movement
  • Land, machines, and farm labor
  • The Oxnard beet workers strike
  • Building San Francisco
  • Organizing San Francisco
  • Carmen, women, and their unions
  • Otistown: Los Angeles at the turn of the century
  • Almost mayor: bombs, ballots, and fusion politics
  • Open shop: California workers in the jazz age
  • Radical responses to the great depression
  • The San Francisco general strike
  • The Cio: civil war and civil rights
  • Arsenal of democracy: integrating industrial California during World War II
  • We called it a work holiday?: the Oakland general strike
  • Hollywood to Bakersfield: poverty in the valley of plenty
  • The era of business unionism
  • Cold war prosperity: labor becomes middle class?
  • Labor and politics
  • Si se puede?: the United Farm Workers
  • The rise of public sector unionism
  • The conditions for teaching and learning to happen
  • Feminist collective bargaining meets the civil service
  • Decline of manufacturing unionism
  • Justice for janitors: organizing immigrant workers
  • Teachers, nurses, and firefighters: the Alliance for a Better California
  • Labor and the community.

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