Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles

Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles by Grace Heilman Stimson recovers the largely neglected early history of organized labor in southern California, situating the city’s unions within the broader trajectory of American labor and industrial relations. Drawing on extensive primary sources and previously untapped archives, Stimson reconstructs the origins and fragile development of trade unionism in Los Angeles from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century, a perio...