California has a rich history of working people standing together to fight for the very rights and workplace protections we consider fundamental to this day. See below for a look into how workers have shaped the Golden State for generations!
Special thank you to Fred Glass with the California Federation of Teachers for generously sharing excerpts from his book, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement, available for purchase at the University of California Press.
During a week in which Governor Brown signed a bill, SB 358 (Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara) strengthening pay equity protections for women, it may be helpful to know where and when that struggle started in California, and with whom: Kate Kennedy.
This installment of the California labor history series is excerpted from the book on University of California Press, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement by California Federation of Teachers Communications Director Fred Glass.
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This short excerpt from Fred Glass’s book (available here!) recognizes one of early California’s unrecognizable leaders in pioneering California’s passion for the labor movement.
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This excerpt of Fred Glass’s book on University of California Press, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement introduces the U.S. and California’s very first union, as well as the immigrants’ collective influences on U.S. organized labor.
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Fred Glass’s fourth installment shines on the golden history of California, where Glass detects the earliest signs of organized labor during the Gold Rush! Striking Gold, is a taste of the full history, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement by California Federation of Teachers Communications Director Fred Glass.
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In his third installment, Fred Glass explains the disappearance of Native Californians and the new Spanish missionary surge. Get the whole history in Glass’s From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement. Available for purchase via the University of California Press website.
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This second installment briefs on the lesser-known significant U.S. labor movements and shifts forward to the importance of union power for the working class. You can pick up Fred Glass’s book for purchase here, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement via the University of California Press website.
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This installment of the California labor history series is excerpted from the newly released book, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement by California Federation of Teachers Communications Director Fred Glass. Available for purchase via the University of California Press website. We are pleased to present excerpts in a series beginning with this issue!
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May is Labor History Month. Signed into law as AB 2269 (Swanson) in 2012 by Governor Brown, its purpose is to encourage schools “to commemorate this month with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States.”
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May is Labor History Month. Signed into law as AB 2269 (Swanson) in 2012 by Governor Brown, its purpose is to encourage schools “to commemorate this month with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States.”
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