The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in CaliforniaWinner, Silver Medal, California Book Awards—Commonwealth Club of California With a foreword by William Deverell The Indispensable Enemy examines the anti-Chinese confrontation on the Pacific Coast as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majority. Focusing on the Democratic party and the labor movement of California through the forty-year period after the Civil War, Alexander Saxton explores aspects of the Jacksonian background which proves crucial to an understanding of what occurred in California. The Indispensable Enemy looks beyond the turn of the 19th century to trace results of the sequence of events in the West for the labor movement as a whole, influencing events that led to the crystallization of an American concept of national identity. |
Contents
IDEOLOGICAL BAGGAGE | 19 |
MINES AND RAILROADS | 46 |
REHABILITATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY | 67 |
Interconnections | 75 |
THE ROAD TO REUNION | 92 |
THE WORKINGMENS PARTY | 113 |
WORKINGMEN AND THE SYSTEM | 138 |
THE SOCIALIST ACADEMY | 157 |
DEADLOCK OF LEADERSHIP | 179 |
THE FEDERATED TRADES | 201 |
THE PROGRESSIVE | 229 |
A FORWARD GLANCE | 258 |
INDEX | 285 |
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