Barons of Labor : The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
University of Illinois Press,
1987.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Notes
- I The Rise to Power
- 1 "Where Unionism Holds Undisputed Sway": San Francisco in the Progressive Era
- Notes
- 2 Ascent to Isolation, 1896-1902
- 1. Birth and First Alliances
- 2. The Business of Striking
- 3. The Pitfalls of Arrogance
- Notes
- II The Use of Power
- 3 Leaders
- Notes
- 4 The Closed-Shop Empire: From Job Site to Labor Temple
- 1. Diary of a Mechanic
- 2. Buildings and Builders
- 3. Preserving the Closed Shop
- 4. Inside the BTC
- Notes
- 5 Social Conflict and the Earthquake, 1903-1907
- 1. Routing Labor's Enemies
- 2. Whose New City?
- 3. "A Conspiracy To Destroy Trade Unionism"?
- 4. The Election of 1907
- Notes
- 6 Reform, Utopia, and Racism: The Politics of California Craftsmen
- 1. Reforms by and for the Working Class
- 2. Elements of a Vision
- 3. The BTC and the Left
- 4. Racism as Self-Defense
- Notes
- 7 The Misgoverning of San Francisco, 1908-1911
- 1. Up from Defeat
- 2. Maneuvering to Victory
- 3. The Dilemmas of Power
- 4. Losing with Class
- 5. The Los Angeles Connection
- Notes
- III The Loss of Power
- 8 Perils of Compromise in the Exposition City, 1912-1915
- Notes
- 9 Dynamics of Defeat, 1916-1921
- 1. Decline on the Homefront
- 2. The Open-Shop Triumph
- Notes
- 10 The Building Trades in an Open-Shop City
- Notes
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- Index