In this Book
- The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: The Working Class in American History
David M. Struthers draws on the anarchist concept of affinity to explore the radicalism of Los Angeles's interracial working class from 1900 to 1930. Uneven economic development created precarious employment and living conditions for laborers. The resulting worker mobility led to coalitions that, inevitably, remained short lived. As Struthers shows, affinity helps us understand how individual cooperative actions shaped and reshaped these alliances. It also reveals social practices of resistance that are often too unstructured or episodic for historians to capture. What emerges is an untold history of Los Angeles and a revolutionary movement that, through myriad successes and failures, produced powerful examples of racial cooperation.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- Internationalism and Its Limits
- pp. 81-105
- Organizing Mobile Workers
- pp. 106-126
- The Baja Raids
- pp. 127-156
- A Culture of Affinity
- pp. 157-183
- The Contours of Repression
- pp. 184-208
- Bibliography
- pp. 259-276
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2019