Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era
- ISBN-10
- 025206075X
- ISBN-13
- 9780252060755
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 319
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- Michael Kazin
Description
"Kazin's book is about far more than the construction industry: it also illuminates the social and political history of San Francisco. . . . Gracefully written and adorned with evocative portraits of local political and labor leaders, Barons of Labor is absorbing reading as well as a fine piece of history."-- The Nation "A bold and pioneering work that revises our understanding of skilled craftsmen and the politics of class in the Progressive Era."-- Journal of American History "Barons of Labor, is superb work, carefully researched and written with clarity, vitality, and wit, a pleasure as well as an education to read." -- Labor History
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