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Fred B. Glass is Communications Director for the California Federation of Teachers and Instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the producer of Golden Lands, Working Hands, a ten-part documentary video series on California labor history.

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“No one has ever made California labor history so vivid or so rich with lessons for the present. A landmark book.”—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

“Fred Glass puts to rest the myth that unions are a thing of the past, once needed but no longer. These stories from the hidden history of working people’s struggles show that unions today serve the same purpose they always have: protecting and empowering workers in the quest for their fair share of the American Dream.”—Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers

“It took work to create California. Fred Glass now chronicles that epic of labor in a masterful narrative that will in short order establish itself as one of the best—and certainly the most up-to-date—histories of the labor movement in California.”—Kevin Starr, Professor, University of Southern California
 
“From Mission to Microchip is engaging and inspiring. This book includes the often-neglected stories of workers of color, immigrants, and women who have played and who continue to play important roles in our movement. Union members, community activists, students, and all who support worker justice should read this book.”—Kent Wong, Director, Labor Center, University of California, Los Angeles

"The volume embraces more than California’s rich labor organizing history—it examines the nature of work, the forces that manage our work lives, who benefits from labor and how it all shapes our present notions of what work is about."—Bobbi Murray, Capital & Main

"Labor history comes alive in CFT Communications Director Fred Glass’s new book."—United Educators of San Francisco

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&;No one has ever made California labor history so vivid or so rich with lessons for the present. A landmark book.&;&;Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

&;Fred Glass puts to rest the myth that unions are a thing of the past, once needed but no longer. These stories from the hidden history of working people&;s struggles show that unions today serve the same purpose they always have: protecting and empowering workers in the quest for their fair share of the American Dream.&;&;Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers

&;It took work to create California. Fred Glass now chronicles that epic of labor in a masterful narrative that will in short order establish itself as one of the best&;and certainly the most up-to-date&;histories of the labor movement in California.&;&;Kevin Starr, Professor, University of Southern California
 
&;From Mission to Microchip is engaging and inspiring. This book includes the often-neglected stories of workers of color, immigrants, and women who have played and who continue to play important roles in our movement. Union members, community activists, students, and all who support worker justice should read this book.&;&;Kent Wong, Director, Labor Center, University of California, Los Angeles

"The volume embraces more than California&;s rich labor organizing history&;it examines the nature of work, the forces that manage our work lives, who benefits from labor and how it all shapes our present notions of what work is about."&;Bobbi Murray, Capital & Main

"Labor history comes alive in CFT Communications Director Fred Glass&;s new book."&;United Educators of San Francisco

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From Mission to Microchip

A History of the California Labor Movement

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Contents

List of Illustrations, 
Preface: Why California Labor History?, 
Acknowledgments, 
PART I: BEFORE THE BEGINNING, 
1 • Where in California Is Its Labor History?, 
2 • On a Mission: How Work Destroyed Native California, 
PART II: EARLY DAYS, 
3 • Striking Gold, 
4 • "All That Is Solid Melts into Air": Gold Rush San Francisco, 
5 • Work, Leisure, and the Struggle for the Eight-Hour Day, 
6 • Sandlots and Silver Kings: The Workingmen's Party of California, 
7 • Building Paradise: The Making of the Los Angeles Working Class, 
8 • Newspapers, Railroads, and the Los Angeles Labor Movement, 
9 • Land, Machines, and Farm Labor, 
10 • The Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers Strike, 
PART III: FROM PRIDE OF CRAFT TO INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM, 
11 • Building San Francisco, 
12 • Organizing San Francisco, 
13 • Carmen, Women, and Their Unions, 
14 • Otistown: Los Angeles at the Turn of the Century, 
15 • Almost Mayor: Bombs, Ballots, and Fusion Politics, 
16 • Open Shop: California Workers in the Jazz Age, 
PART IV: DIVISIONS IN THE GROWING HOUSE OF LABOR, 
17 • Radical Responses to the Great Depression, 
18 • The San Francisco General Strike, 
19 • The CIO: Civil War and Civil Rights, 
20 • Arsenal of Democracy: Integrating Industrial California during World War II, 
21 • "We Called It a Work Holiday": The Oakland General Strike, 
22 • Hollywood to Bakersfield: Poverty in the Valley of Plenty, 
PART V: THE ERA OF BUSINESS UNIONISM, 
23 • Cold War Prosperity: Labor Becomes "Middle Class", 
24 • Labor and Politics, 
25 • "Sí Se Puede": The United Farm Workers, 
26 • The Rise of Public Sector Unionism, 
27 • Creating the Conditions for Teaching and Learning to Happen, 
28 • Feminist Collective Bargaining Meets the Civil Service, 
PART VI: REINVENTING CALIFORNIA LABOR, 
29 • The Decline of Manufacturing Unionism, 
30 • Justice for Janitors: Organizing Immigrant Workers, 
31 • Teachers, Nurses, and Firefighters: The Alliance for a Better California, 
32 • Labor and the Community: Reclaiming California's Future, 
Afterword: A Place in the Sun, 
List of Labor Organizations and Acronyms, 
Bibliographic Note, 
Sources, 
Index,