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Labor History: Desegregating Unions during WWII
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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While CIO unions were committed to organizing all workers, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender, and had a relatively good record on civil rights, most AFL craft unions engaged in a variety of discriminatory practices. Consequently, although the expanded job market resulting from the wartime industrial boom in...
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While CIO unions were committed to organizing all workers, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender, and had a relatively good record on civil rights, most AFL craft unions engaged in a variety of discriminatory practices. Consequently, although the expanded job market resulting from the wartime industrial boom in Los Angeles created openings for Black workers in both the aircraft and shipbuilding industries, they often found themselves either exc...
While CIO unions were committed to organizing all workers, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender, and had a relatively good record on civil rights, most AFL craft unions engaged in a variety of discriminatory practices. Consequently, although the expanded job market resulting from the wartime industrial boom in Los Angeles created openings for Black workers in both the aircraft and shipbuilding industries, they often found themselves either excluded from unions, or assigned to Jim Crow locals.
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Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Economics, History, Labor force, World War II, 1939-1945
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California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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Labor History: Furniture Workers
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Mexicans first gained employment in the furniture industry in the late 1910s. While it is unclear whether they were primarily U.S. citizens or immigrants, it is clear that they were often restricted to low-paying, undesirable jobs. By 1925, when Los Angeles had become the nation's fourth largest furniture manufact...
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(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Mexicans first gained employment in the furniture industry in the late 1910s. While it is unclear whether they were primarily U.S. citizens or immigrants, it is clear that they were often restricted to low-paying, undesirable jobs. By 1925, when Los Angeles had become the nation's fourth largest furniture manufacturing center, more entry-level Mexican workers were hired and the experienced ones were assigned to more skilled occupations. Neverthel...
Mexicans first gained employment in the furniture industry in the late 1910s. While it is unclear whether they were primarily U.S. citizens or immigrants, it is clear that they were often restricted to low-paying, undesirable jobs. By 1925, when Los Angeles had become the nation's fourth largest furniture manufacturing center, more entry-level Mexican workers were hired and the experienced ones were assigned to more skilled occupations. Nevertheless, the racially segmented job classifications and pay scales remained intact.
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Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Economics, Ethnic groups, Labor force, Great Depression, 1929-1941, World War II, 1939-1945
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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Labor History: Garment Workers
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Starting in the early 20th century, women worked in both men's and women's garment manufacturing, and were members of the unions that eventually represented these two industries. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America represented the workers in the men's clothing industry and aligned immediately with the newl...
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(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Starting in the early 20th century, women worked in both men's and women's garment manufacturing, and were members of the unions that eventually represented these two industries. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America represented the workers in the men's clothing industry and aligned immediately with the newly organized CIO in the 1930s. The International Ladies Garment Workers, which represented workers in the women's clothing industry, rem...
Starting in the early 20th century, women worked in both men's and women's garment manufacturing, and were members of the unions that eventually represented these two industries. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America represented the workers in the men's clothing industry and aligned immediately with the newly organized CIO in the 1930s. The International Ladies Garment Workers, which represented workers in the women's clothing industry, remained aligned with the AFL, except for a brief two year period.
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Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Economics, Ethnic groups, Labor force
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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Long Beach Area History: Petroleum Entrepreneurs
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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The development of southern California oil fields in the 1920s attracted people from all over the country who were hoping to strike it rich. Although most of them didn't, some became successful by supplying equipment to drillers, buying and selling petroleum products and drilling wells for speculators.
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(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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The development of southern California oil fields in the 1920s attracted people from all over the country who were hoping to strike it rich. Although most of them didn't, some became successful by supplying equipment to drillers, buying and selling petroleum products and drilling wells for speculators.
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Communities, Economics, History, Labor force
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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Labor History: Oil Workers
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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The discovery of oil on Signal Hill, north of Long Beach in 1921, was part of an oil boom that opened up new job opportunities throughout southern California in both oil fields and refineries. Because the work was dirty and often dangerous, both oil well drilling and refining paid premium wages.
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(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Description
The discovery of oil on Signal Hill, north of Long Beach in 1921, was part of an oil boom that opened up new job opportunities throughout southern California in both oil fields and refineries. Because the work was dirty and often dangerous, both oil well drilling and refining paid premium wages.
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Economics, Labor force, Great Depression, 1929-1941, World War II, 1939-1945
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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Mexican American/Chicano History: Rancho Los Alamitos - Hotchkis Collection
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Rancho Los Alamitos is located on the boundary between Los Angeles and Orange counties in southern California. It's a portion of a Spanish land grant that, late in the nineteenth century, was purchased by members of the Bixby family who lived there and farmed the land. The ranch was surrounded by one of the riches...
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Rancho Los Alamitos is located on the boundary between Los Angeles and Orange counties in southern California. It's a portion of a Spanish land grant that, late in the nineteenth century, was purchased by members of the Bixby family who lived there and farmed the land. The ranch was surrounded by one of the richest agricultural areas in the country and it became a center of family ranching operations that included additional land holdings in othe...
Rancho Los Alamitos is located on the boundary between Los Angeles and Orange counties in southern California. It's a portion of a Spanish land grant that, late in the nineteenth century, was purchased by members of the Bixby family who lived there and farmed the land. The ranch was surrounded by one of the richest agricultural areas in the country and it became a center of family ranching operations that included additional land holdings in other parts of California and Arizona.
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Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Agriculture, Economics, Labor force, Agrarian life
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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Women's History: Professionals and Entrepreneurs (Early Twentieth Century)
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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By the early 20th century, women increasingly were entering into a variety of professions, including law, medicine and journalism although teaching and nursing still provided the most common options available to them. Although they had entered medicine in the 19th century, two hundred years later they still faced...
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By the early 20th century, women increasingly were entering into a variety of professions, including law, medicine and journalism although teaching and nursing still provided the most common options available to them. Although they had entered medicine in the 19th century, two hundred years later they still faced discriminatory practices both in medical school and in their professional organizations
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Economics, Labor force
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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Labor History: Individual Labor Activists
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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This series is comprised of several individuals who were active in the labor movement and/or were participants in historic moments in labor history. In contrast to those included in the other labor history series, they are the sole narrators about the particular union(s) in which they were active and/or events in...
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(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Description
This series is comprised of several individuals who were active in the labor movement and/or were participants in historic moments in labor history. In contrast to those included in the other labor history series, they are the sole narrators about the particular union(s) in which they were active and/or events in which they participated. They include: Genora Johnson Dollinger, the founder of the Women's Emergency Brigade during the 1936-7 auto wo...
This series is comprised of several individuals who were active in the labor movement and/or were participants in historic moments in labor history. In contrast to those included in the other labor history series, they are the sole narrators about the particular union(s) in which they were active and/or events in which they participated. They include: Genora Johnson Dollinger, the founder of the Women's Emergency Brigade during the 1936-7 auto workers strike in Flint, Michigan
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Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Economics, Labor unions, Labor force, Oral history, Labor strikes, United States territories
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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Long Beach Area History: Signal Hill
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Oil was discovered on Signal Hill, north of the City of Long Beach, in 1921. Soon more wells were brought it and the field spread into the City. As more people moved into the area to work on the wells and the developments that followed them, people in pre-existing neighborhoods worried that the field's spread migh...
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(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Description
Oil was discovered on Signal Hill, north of the City of Long Beach, in 1921. Soon more wells were brought it and the field spread into the City. As more people moved into the area to work on the wells and the developments that followed them, people in pre-existing neighborhoods worried that the field's spread might bring out of control wells, smelly sump holes and dangerous equipment near their homes. In response, Long Beach adopted regulations t...
Oil was discovered on Signal Hill, north of the City of Long Beach, in 1921. Soon more wells were brought it and the field spread into the City. As more people moved into the area to work on the wells and the developments that followed them, people in pre-existing neighborhoods worried that the field's spread might bring out of control wells, smelly sump holes and dangerous equipment near their homes. In response, Long Beach adopted regulations that limited oil development. Even as the City incorporated outlying neighborhoods that filled with the homes of oil workers and those in related industries, people on top of the hill, near the center of petroleum development, resisted. And in 1926 they incorporated their own City of Signal Hill which is completely surrounded by the City of Long Beach.
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Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Economics, Environment, Labor force
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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Women's History: Rosie the Riveter Revisited
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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The Rosie the Riveter Revisited project, funded by NEH Grant (RC 00019-80-1459) and Rockefeller Foundation Grant (GA HUM 7924 and 8139) grants, was designed to do just that, using the medium of oral history. A total of forty-four Los Angeles production workers and two Women's Counselors were interviewed for the pr...
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Description
The Rosie the Riveter Revisited project, funded by NEH Grant (RC 00019-80-1459) and Rockefeller Foundation Grant (GA HUM 7924 and 8139) grants, was designed to do just that, using the medium of oral history. A total of forty-four Los Angeles production workers and two Women's Counselors were interviewed for the project
Field of Study
Letters and Diaries
Content Type
Oral history, Interview
Publisher
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Topic / Theme
Economics, Labor force, War, World War II, 1939-1945
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Publisher:
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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