Booms and Busts

Join us for a discussion about labor history from 1850 to 1950 in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Authors and historians Chris Carlsson and Fred Glass will discuss key moments in the struggle for equitable labor from the 1877 three day riots in San Francisco, the burning of Chinatowns in San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Jose, the 1910 bombing at the Los Angeles Times, and the 1916 Preparedness Day march, the general strikes in 1934 in San Francisco and 1946 in Oakland, to the rise of a “middle class” working class following World War II.