Title: Bread upon the waters /
Authors: Pesotta, Rose, 1896-; Beffel, John Nicholas.; Schofield, Ann.
Publisher: ILR Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Working class United States; Labor unions United States History; Working class United States History
Contents: Flight to the west -- California, here we come! -- Mexican girls stand their ground -- The employers try an injunction -- Our union on the march -- Subterranean sweatshops in Chinatown -- Far cry from 'forty nine -- Police guns bring general strike to 'Frisco -- Some history is recorded in Chicago -- Island paradise and mass tragedy -- Yet the Puerto Ricans multiply -- Last outpost of civilisation -- Early champions of the common man -- Employers double as vigilantes -- Out on a limb in Seattle -- Travail in Atlantic City -- Milwaukee and Buffalo are different -- Vulnerable Akron: the first great sit-down -- 'Outside agitators' strive for peace -- Pageant of victory -- Auto workers line up for battle -- General Motors capitulates -- French-Canadian girls get tough -- We win against odds in Montreal -- Union fights union in Cleveland -- The Mohawk Valley formula fails -- European holiday: war shadows deepen -- Graveyard: Boston is Boston -- Return engagement in Los Angeles -- Back in the American Federation of Labor -- Dust bowlers make good unionists -- End of an era -- Labor and the road ahead.