1934 Big Strike: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
(added new photo) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[Image: | [[Image:Police-using-tear-gas-against-striking-longshoremen-on-Rincon-Hill-aad-5140.jpg]] | ||
''' | '''Police using tear gas against strikers on Rincon Hill, July 5, 1934.''' | ||
''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA'' | ''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA'' | ||
| Line 24: | Line 24: | ||
[[San Francisco's Press and the 1934 General Strike | Media Distortion]] | [[San Francisco's Press and the 1934 General Strike | Media Distortion]] | ||
[[Image:Labor1%24market-st-during-34-strike.jpg]] | |||
'''Market Street During 1934 Strike''' | |||
''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA'' | |||
READ MORE: | READ MORE: | ||
Revision as of 18:11, 4 December 2010
Police using tear gas against strikers on Rincon Hill, July 5, 1934.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
1934: The Big Strike--a Menu
The 1934 waterfront strike in San Francisco is by all accounts a seminal event in class relations in the city. There are accounts of this period in many history books, some of which are referenced below. We present a series of screens with texts, photos, captions, and videos that attempt to present the basic story. It follows this sequence:
Market Street During 1934 Strike
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
READ MORE:
A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco by David F. Selvin, Wayne State University: Detroit, 1996.
Strike! by Jeremy Brecher, South End Press: Boston, 1972.
American Labor Struggles by Samuel Yellen © 1936, Monad Press edition: New York, 1974.
The Labor Wars by Sidney Lens, Anchor/Doubleday: New York, 1974.
The Big Strike by Mike Quin, Olema Books: 1948.
On The Drumhead by Mike Quin, Daily People's World: San Francisco, 1948.
The Big Strike: A Pictorial History of the 1934 SF General Strike with a narrative by Warren Hinckle, Silver Dollar Books: Virginia City, Nevada, 1985.
The March Inland: Origins of the ILWU Warehouse Division 1934-1938 by Harvey Schwartz, International Longshore and Warehouse Union: San Francisco, 2000.