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In June 1986, a Japanese watch factory in Hong Kong tried to fire 36 of its women workers. This provoked an unprecedented sit-in by 300 of the women employed at the plant. The sit-in lasted for 13 days and accounted for over half the days lost to labour unrest that year.

Blue collar workers --- Labor disputes --- Sit-down strikes --- Strikes and lockouts --- Attitudes. --- Social aspects --- Clock and watch industry

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Michèle Lamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men--the world as they understand it. Interviewing black and white working-class men who, because they are not college graduates, have limited access to high-paying jobs and other social benefits, she constructs a revealing portrait of how they see themselves and the rest of society. Morality is at the center of these workers' worlds. They find their identity and self-worth in their ability to discipline themselves and conduct responsible but caring lives. These moral standards function as an alternative to economic definitions of success, offering them a way to maintain dignity in an out-of-reach American dreamland. But these standards also enable them to draw class boundaries toward the poor and, to a lesser extent, the upper half. Workers also draw rigid racial boundaries, with white workers placing emphasis on the "disciplined self" and blacks on the "caring self." Whites thereby often construe blacks as morally inferior because they are lazy, while blacks depict whites as domineering, uncaring, and overly disciplined. This book also opens up a wider perspective by examining American workers in comparison with French workers, who take the poor as "part of us" and are far less critical of blacks than they are of upper-middle-class people and immigrants. By singling out different "moral offenders" in the two societies, workers reveal contrasting definitions of "cultural membership" that help us understand and challenge the forms of inequality found in both societies.

Blue collar workers --- Men --- Working class --- Work ethic --- Ethic, Work --- Ethics --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Laborers --- Manual workers --- Employees --- Employment

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"I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun." So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, fields, and mines while their compatriots fought in the battlefields of Europe and on the bloody beaches of the Pacific. The male experience of working and living in wartime America is rarely examined, but the story of men like these provides a crucial counter-narrative to the national story of Rosie the Riveter and GI Joe that dominates scholarly and popular discussions of World War II. In Meet Joe Copper, Matthew L. Basso describes the formation of a powerful, white, working-class masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived-on the job, in the community, and through union politics. Basso recalls for us the practices and beliefs of the first- and second-generation immigrant copper workers of Montana while advancing the historical conversation on gender, class, and the formation of a white ethnic racial identity. Meet Joe Copper provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era.

Copper miners --- World War, 1939-1945. --- Social conditions. --- Montana --- Race relations. --- masculinity, race, power, strength, gender, manliness, manhood, montana, west, frontier, home front, war, soldier, military, ww2, factories, mines, europe, pacific, conscientious objector, labor, work, production, working class, whiteness, community, union, politics, immigrant, copper, ethnicity, new deal, greatest generation, patriotism, blue collar, postwar, black men, history, nonfiction.

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The Railroad Age, The Depression, World War II, The Atomic Age, The Sixties-these periods shaped and were in turn shaped by Berkeley, California-a city that has had a remarkable influence given its modest size. This concise book, the only up-to-date history of Berkeley, is a rich chronicle connecting the people, trends, and events that made the city to much larger themes in history. From the native builders of shellmounds to the blue-collar residents of Ocean View, the rise of the University of California, the World War II shipyards, and today's demographics and politics, it's all here in this fascinating account of the other beloved city by the bay. Along the way, we find the answers to many intriguing questions: Why is Adeline Street is so oddly aligned? How did Berkeley benefit from the 1906 earthquake that destroyed much of San Francisco? What differentiated Holy Hill from Nut Hill? Berkeley: A City in History offers a delightful sense of place to anyone who has lived in, worked in, or traveled through this unique city.

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY). --- Berkeley (Calif.) --- Paikelai (Calif.) --- History. --- Social conditions. --- 1906 earthquake. --- atomic age. --- berkeley california. --- blue-collar residents. --- california history. --- college textbook. --- depression era. --- great earthquake. --- higher education. --- holy hill. --- larger historical themes. --- natural disasters. --- nut hill. --- ocean view. --- railroad age. --- san francisco. --- shellmounds. --- sixties. --- universities. --- world war ii shipyards. --- ww ii.

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Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles's large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century of labor history, John H. M. Laslett acknowledges the advantages Southern California's climate, open spaces, and bucolic character offered to generations of newcomers. At the same time, he demonstrates that-in terms of wages, hours, and conditions of work-L.A. differed very little from America's other industrial cities. Both fast-paced and sophisticated, Sunshine Was Never Enough shows how labor in all its guises-blue and white collar, industrial, agricultural, and high tech-shaped the neighborhoods, economic policies, racial attitudes, and class perceptions of the City of Angels. Laslett explains how, until the 1930's, many of L.A.'s workers were under the thumb of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association. This conservative organization kept wages low, suppressed trade unions, and made L.A. into the open shop capital of America. By contrast now, at a time when the AFL-CIO is at its lowest ebb-a young generation of Mexican and African American organizers has infused the L.A. movement with renewed strength. These stories of the men and women who pumped oil, loaded ships in San Pedro harbor, built movie sets, assembled aircraft, and in more recent times cleaned hotels and washed cars is a little-known but vital part of Los Angeles history.

Working class --- Labor --- Labor movement --- Labor and laboring classes --- Social movements --- Manpower --- Work --- Commons (Social order) --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- History. --- Employment --- History --- E-books --- agricultural. --- american history. --- blue collar workers. --- california. --- economic policies. --- industrial relations. --- industrialization. --- labor capitals. --- labor historians. --- labor history. --- labor movements. --- labor types. --- laborers. --- los angeles history. --- los angeles. --- merchants and manufacturers association. --- nonfiction. --- race and class. --- san pedro harbor. --- southern california. --- trade unions. --- united states. --- wages. --- white collar workers. --- work hours. --- working class. --- working conditions.