Barons of Labor
Subtitle: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era (Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 1, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780252060755
Subjects: American history; Technology & Industrial Arts; History: American; USA; General; Labor; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Business & Economics / Labor; Building Trades Council (San Francisco, Calif.); Building trades; California; History; San Francisco; Trade-unions
First sentence: "In San Francisco we have a new kind of industrial peace," wrote Ray Stannard Baker in 1904, "a condition, perhaps, without precedent, in which the ancient master, the employer, has been hopelessly defeated and unionism reigns supreme."