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Thesis ID: CBB280293808

The San Francisco machinists from Depression to Cold War, 1930-1950 (1988)

Richard Prime Boyden (Author)
Litwack, Leon F. (Advisor)

Litwack, Leon F.
University of California, Berkeley
Publication date: 1988
Language: English

URI: https://www.proquest.com/docview/303539604/abstract/FFD9D0F151D141EDPQ/1?sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses

Publication Date: 1988
Physical Details: 387

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Explores the interaction of work process, protest mobilization, and structures of social control in a period of dramatic change in class and state relations. Regional and craft peculiarities, combined with nation-wide labor insurgency, produced heightened conflict not only between skilled workers and major employers, but between workers and a national trade union leadership increasingly interpenetrated by the state. The threat of technological change and the dilution of skills formed the basis for a temporary alliance of skilled and less skilled workers that greatly increased the volatility of that conflict.

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