The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. Large migrations significantly changed the composition of the industrial work force while, simultaneously, the organized labor movement sought to consolidate its base. These essays examine topics including aspects of the institutional development of the labor movement at the national level, while west coast case studies explore the conflicts generated at the workplace and in communities by the increased presence of women and minority workers. American labor historians and labor studies specialists will find this collection fills a major void in the research on American labor.
About the Author:
SALLY M. MILLER is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She specializes in American immigration history and women and labor issues. Miller is the author of several books including From Prairie to Prison: The Life of Social Activist Kate Richards O'Hare (1993), The Ethnic Press(Greenwood Press, 1987) and wed Liberationeenwood, 1981).
DANIEL A. CORNFORD is Associate Professor of History at San Jose State University, California. His special interests are American labor history and California social history./e He is the editor of Working People of California (1995), an associate editor of The Emma Goldman Papers (microfilm edition, 1992), and the author of Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire (1987).