Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916

Index

261 Affiliated Building Contractors, 125–26 African Americans, 31, 37, 70 Altemeyer, Abram, 68 “American exceptionalism,” 3–4, 16, 21, 30, 83, 134–36 “anti-coolie” associations, 68, 70, 87, 116 apprenticeship. See industrial education: apprenticeship arbitration, 174, 180 in Cincinnati, 41, 50, 174–75 Cincinnati vs. San Francisco, 180 in San Francisco, 77, 126, 134, 180, 195 Associated Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, 68 Baer, George, 167 baking industry, 72, 76 Baldwin Piano, 160 employee training, 164 piece work system, 165 Barley, Stephen, 140 Beckert, Sven, 32, 217n18, 220n19 Bendix, Reinhard, 135, 141 Bentley, C. H., 178 Berthoff, Rowland, 137 Blumin, Stuart, 32, 226n7 Board of Manufacturers and Employers of California, 75 Board of Trade (Cincinnati), 40, 105, 146–47, 174–75 Board of Trade (San Francisco), 116, 191 Boilermakers Union, 73 boot and shoe industry and Chinese immigrants, 68 in Cincinnati, 48–50, 171, 175 industrial relations, in San Francisco, 68–69, 72, 75, 123 in San Francisco, 64, 67–68, 113, 197 Boot and Shoemakers’ White Labor League, 68–69, 72 Bourdieu, 217n12 bourgeoisie, 32, 217n18. See also business community; business ideology; class formation Braverman, Harry, 140 Breed, William, 99 Brewers’ Protective Association, 50, 168–69 Brewery Workers Union of San Francisco, 128 brewing in Cincinnati, 48–50, 161 industrial relations, in San Francisco, 72, 75, 123 in San Francisco, 64 Brown, H. Wilson, 100 Bruschke, Charles, 125 Buckley, Christopher (“Blind Boss”), 192 Builders’ Association, 181 Builders’ Exchange, 169, 173 building trades arbitration, in San Francisco, 181 in Cincinnati, 46, 48, 50, 169, 171 industrial relations, in Cincinnati, 167, 173–74 industrial relations, in San Francisco, 72, 123–26, 184, 196 in San Francisco, 64, 67, 142 Building Trades Council, 73, 124–26, 184, 193 and arbitration, 181, 195 and municipal government, 190–91 Building Trades Employers’ Association, 125, 181 Bullock, A. D., 53 Burawoy, Michael, 5 Burckhardt, Frederick, 163 Bureau of Municipal Research, 56 business community, 7–8, 32 business ideology. See also class formation; collective identity; republicanism arbitration, in San Francisco, 180–85 business citizenship, in Cincinnati, 4, 84–85, 95–99, 102–4, 110–11 business citizenship, in San Francisco, 131, 199–201, 212–13 Cincinnati vs. San Francisco, 4, 16, 23, 89, 120–21, 142, 207–10 class, 2, 108 class, Cincinnati vs. San Francisco, 113, 172 class, in Cincinnati, 147, 172–74 class, in San Francisco, 183, 199 contemporary, 1–2, 214–15 corporate liberalism, 88 Index 262 INDEX education, 142, 150–59 employee rights, 134, 142, 163–66 evidence, 25, 123, 133–34, 159 Gilded Age, 83–84, 99, 103, 140 the good employee, 134, 142, 159–63, 166 influence of, 2–3 labor unions, 3, 22, 89, 134–36, 142 labor unions, contemporary, 1–2 labor unions, in Cincinnati, 22, 139, 166–74 labor unions, in San Francisco, 22–23, 112–13, 124, 127–28, 138–39, 182–83, 199–201, 214 laissez faire, 83–84, 103, 140 liberalism, 101 mobs and riots, 95–96, 168–69 municipal government, 84, 97, 115, 175–76, 190–94 practical corporatism, 4, 88–89, 112–13, 120–23, 131, 178–79 Business Men’s Club, 30, 32, 56, 59, 108–9, 111 and industrial education, 151–52 and industrial expositions, 147–49 and labor unions, 176 businessmen. See bourgeoisie; business community; employers; manufacturers; merchants butcher shops, 69, 76 Calhoun, Patrick, 61, 128–29, 185, 192–93 California Chinese Exclusion Convention, 116–17, 191 California Metal Trades Association, 75, 126–27, 182 cooperation with ITC for local industry, 188 California Tanners’ Association, 181 capitalists. See bourgeoisie; business community; business ideology; employers; manufacturers; merchants Carbery, Joseph, 105 Carmen’s Union, 181 Carpenters’ Union, 191 Carriage Makers’ Club, 51, 153 carriage-making, 48 Casey, Michael, 193, 194 Central Labor Union, 45 Chamber of Commerce (Cincinnati), 40–41, 43, 49, 57, 173–74, 176 and civic reform, 106–7 and industrial education, 152 and industrial expositions, 146–47 and labor unions, 176 memorials, 97–98, 102–3, 163 Chamber of Commerce (San Francisco), 178, 186, 200, 212–14 and arbitration, 181–82 and labor unions, 76, 128, 191, 195–96 reorganization in, 1911, 139, 198 “character,” 86, 96–97, 106, 142, 162, 164 Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 70, 74 Chinese immigrants, 64, 66–72, 74, 87, 113–20, 197 Cigar Makers’ Association, 68 cigar making and Chinese immigrants, 68–70 in Cincinnati, 49–50 in San Francisco, 64, 67–68, 70, 113–14, 197 Cincinnati city charter, 55 Court House riot, 43–45, 78, 87, 95, 110...