Table of Contents:
  • CIO leaders and the state, 1935-55 / Robert H. Zeiger
  • The law of collective bargaining and wartime labor regulations / James B. Atleson
  • The United Steelworkers of America and health insurance, 1937-62 / Alan Derickson
  • Wartime shipyards : the transformation of labor in San Francisco's East Bay / Marilynn S. Johnson
  • The San Francisco machinists and the National War Labor Board / Richard P. Boyden
  • Who controls the hiring hall? : the struggle for job control in the ILWU during World War II / Nancy L. Quam-Wickham
  • "Her husband didn't have a word to say" : black women and blues clubs in Richmond, California, during World War II / Shirley Ann Moore
  • African-American migrant women in the San Francisco East Bay area / Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
  • Catalyst for change : wartime housing and African-Americans in California's East Bay / Delores Nason McBroome
  • The CIO : a vanguard for civil rights in Southern California, 1940-46 / David Oberweiser, Jr.