Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Varieties of Progressive Experience / William Deverell
  • pt. I. Class Politics, Class Moralities: John Randolph Haynes and the Left Wing of California Progressivism / Tom Sitton
  • William Kent: The Puzzle of Progressive Conservationists / Anne F. Hyde
  • Neither Friends nor Foes: Organized Labor and the California Progressives / Mary Ann Mason
  • The Neglected Twin: California Democrats and the Progressive Bandwagon / William Deverell
  • A Penchant for Probity: California Progressives and the Disreputable Pleasures / Gerald Woods
  • pt. II. What Manner of Men? Women and the Progressive Impetus: Socialist Women and Progressive Reform / Sherry Katz
  • Los Angeles Clubwomen and Progressive Reform / Judith Raftery
  • City Mothers and Delinquent Daughters: Female juvenile Justice Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles / Mary Odem
  • pt. III. Ethnic Dimensions, Ethnic Realities: African-Americans and the Politics of Race in Progressive-Era Los Angeles / Douglas Flamming
  • The "New Nationalism," Mexican Style: Race and Progressivism in Chicano Political Development during the 1920s / George J. Sanchez
  • pt. IV. The Legacy of Reform : The Progressive Legacy in California: Fifty Years of Politics, 1917-1967 / Jackson K. Putnam.