5. Work, Leisure, and the Struggle for the Eight-Hour Day

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Preface: Why California Labor History? xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Part I: Before the Beginning
7. 1. Where in California Is Its Labor History? 3
8. 2. On a Mission: How Work Destroyed Native California 9
9. Part II: Early Days
10. 3. Striking Gold 25
11. 4. “All That Is Solid Melts into Air”: Gold Rush San Francisco 32
12. 5. Work, Leisure, and the Struggle for the Eight-Hour Day 46
13. 6. Sandlots and Silver Kings: The Workingmen’s Party of California 60
14. 7. Building Paradise: The Making of the Los Angeles Working Class 77
15. 8. Newspapers, Railroads, and the Los Angeles Labor Movement 89
16. 9. Land, Machines, and Farm Labor 102
17. 10. The Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers Strike 114
18. Part III: From Pride of Craft to Industrial Unionism
19. 11. Building San Francisco 131
20. 12. Organizing San Francisco 144
21. 13. Carmen, Women, and Their Unions 155
22. 14. Otistown: Los Angeles at the Turn of the Century 169
23. 15. Almost Mayor: Bombs, Ballots, and Fusion Politics 181
24. 16. Open Shop: California Workers in the Jazz Age 191
25. Part IV: Divisions in the Growing House of Labor
26. 17. Radical Responses to the Great Depression 211
27. 18. The San Francisco General Strike 229
28. 19. The CIO: Civil War and Civil Rights 247
29. 20. Arsenal of Democracy: Integrating Industrial California during World War II 262
30. 21. “We Called It a Work Holiday”: The Oakland General Strike 280
31. 22. Hollywood to Bakersfield: Poverty in the Valley of Plenty 292
32. Part V: The Era of Business Unionism
33. 23. Cold War Prosperity: Labor Becomes “Middle Class” 307
34. 24. Labor and Politics 319
35. 25. “Sí Se Puede”: The United Farm Workers 332
36. 26. The Rise of Public Sector Unionism 348
37. 27. Creating the Conditions for Teaching and Learning to Happen 359
38. 28. Feminist Collective Bargaining Meets the Civil Service 369
39. Part VI: Reinventing California Labor
40. 29. The Decline of Manufacturing Unionism 383
41. 30. Justice for Janitors: Organizing Immigrant Workers 398
42. 31. Teachers, Nurses, and Firefighters: The Alliance for a Better California 414
43. 32. Labor and the Community: Reclaiming California’s Future 426
44. Afterword: A Place in the Sun 443
45. List of Labor Organizations and Acronyms 451
46. Bibliographic Note 455
47. Sources 461
48. Index 483