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Author : Louis B. Perry,Richard S. Perry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Justin Akers Chacón
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608467761
Radicals in the Barrio uncovers a long and rich history of political radicalism within the Mexican and Chicano working class in the United States. Chacón clearly and sympathetically documents the ways that migratory workers carried with them radical political ideologies, new organizational models, and shared class experience, as they crossed the border into southwestern barrios during the first three decades of the twentieth-century. Justin Akers Chacón previous work includes No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border (with Mike Davis).
Author : Eileen Wallis
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874178142
The half-century between 1880 and 1930 saw rampant growth in many American cities and an equally rapid movement of women into the work force. In Los Angeles, the city not only grew from a dusty cow town to a major American metropolis but also offered its residents myriad new opportunities and challenges.Earning Power examines the role that women played in this growth as they attempted to make their financial way in a rapidly changing world. Los Angeles during these years was one of the most ethnically diverse and gender-balanced American cities. Moreover, its accelerated urban growth generated a great deal of economic, social, and political instability. In Earning Power, author Eileen V. Wallis examines how women negotiated issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and class to gain access to professions and skilled work in Los Angeles. She also discusses the contributions they made to the region’s history as political and social players, employers and employees, and as members of families. Wallis reveals how the lives of women in the urban West differed in many ways from those of their sisters in more established eastern cities. She finds that the experiences of women workers force us to reconsider many assumptions about the nature of Los Angeles’s economy, as well as about the ways women participated in it. The book also considers how Angelenos responded to the larger national social debate about women’s work and the ways that American society would have to change in order to accommodate working women. Earning Power is a major contribution to our understanding of labor in the urban West during this transformative period and of the crucial role that women played in shaping western cities, economies, society, and politics.
Author : Errol Wayne Stevens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806186481
When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from Los Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, “Coxey’s Army” marked the birth of radicalism in that city. In this first book to trace the subsequent struggle between the radical left and L.A.’s power structure, Errol Wayne Stevens tells how both sides shaped the city’s character from the turn of the twentieth century through the civil rights era. On the radical right, Los Angeles’s business elite, supported by the Los Angeles Times, sought the destruction of the trade-union movement—defended on the left by socialists, Wobblies, communists, and other groups. In portraying the conflict between leftist and capitalist visions for the future, Stevens brings to life colorful personalities such as Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis and Socialist mayoral candidate Job Harriman. He also re-creates events such as the 1910 bombing of the Times building, the savage suppression of the 1923 longshoremen’s strike, and the 1965 Watts riots, which signaled that L.A. politics had become divided less along class lines than by complex racial and ethnic differences. The book takes stock of the rivalry between right and left over the several decades in which it repeatedly flared. Radical L.A. is a balanced work of meticulous scholarship that pieces together a rich chronicle usually seen only in smaller snippets or from a single vantage point. It will change the way we see the history of the City of Angels.
Author : Richard Dilworth
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780872899117
Profiling the ten most populous cities in the United States during ten critical eras of political development, Cities in American Political History presents a unique singular focus on American cities, their government and politics, industry, commerce, labor, and race and ethnicity. Cities in American Political History analyzes the role that large cities from New York to Chicago to San Jose, have played in U.S. politics and policymaking. Each entry is structured for straightforward comparison across issues and eras. The city profiles include basic data and statistics for the era and are accompanied by maps of each era and the largest cities at that time.
Author : Bruce Nelson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252061446
With working lives characterized by exploitation and rootlessness, merchant seamen were isolated from mainstream life. Yet their contacts with workers in port cities around the world imbued them with a sense of internationalism. These factors contributed to a subculture that encouraged militancy, spontaneous radicalism, and a syndicalist mood. Bruce Nelson's award-winning book examines the insurgent activity and consciousness of maritime workers during the 1930s. As he shows, merchant seamen and longshoremen on the Pacific Coast made major institutional gains, sustained a lengthy period of activity, and expanded their working-class consciousness. Nelson examines the two major strikes that convulsed the region and caused observers to state that day-to-day labor relations resembled guerilla warfare. He also looks at related activity, from increasing political activism to stoppages to defend laborers from penalties, refusals to load cargos for Mussolini's war in Ethiopia, and forced boardings of German vessels to tear down the swastika.
Author : John H. M. Laslett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520282193
Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles's large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century of labor history, John H. M. Laslett acknowledges the advantages Southern California's climate, open spaces, and bucolic character offered to generations of newcomers. At the same time, he demonstrates that--in terms of wages, hours, and conditions of work--L.A. differed very little from America's other industrial cities. Both fast-paced and sophisticated, Sunshine Was Never Enough shows how labor in all its guises--blue and white collar, industrial, agricultural, and high tech--shaped the neighborhoods, economic policies, racial attitudes, and class perceptions of the City of Angels. Laslett explains how, until the 1930s, many of L.A.'s workers were under the thumb of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association. This conservative organization kept wages low, suppressed trade unions, and made L.A. into the open shop capital of America. By contrast now, at a time when the AFL-CIO is at its lowest ebb--a young generation of Mexican and African American organizers has infused the L.A. movement with renewed strength. These stories of the men and women who pumped oil, loaded ships in San Pedro harbor, built movie sets, assembled aircraft, and in more recent times cleaned hotels and washed cars is a little-known but vital part of Los Angeles history.
Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1734 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415968263
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Author : James C. McBrearty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0816505047
Author : MANUEL P. SERVIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Albert A. Blum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015011589861
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1480 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015036938010
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : UOM:39015008640107
Author : Daniel A. Cornford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015013010346
This excellent community history of the lumber region around Eureka, California, deserves a wide readership. Cornford (San Francisco State) takes on a big question: How did the radical "republican" tradition of the American Revolution lead to the conservative corporate hierarchy of the 20th century? His case study looks at how timber and sawmill workers' attitudes toward work and politics changed from the Civil War to World War I. The author sees 19th-century America's stress on equality as double-edged: critical of the corporate enterprise, yet accommodating to paternalistic capitalism. Nineteen hundred divides US history between republic and empire; in Eureka, workers briefly developed a sense of class struggle before the mill owners permanently defeated them. Highly recommended. James W. Oberly, Univ. Of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Author : Walton Bean,James J. Rawls
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035122444
