Bibliographical Materials

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS

ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS with texts on the Oakland General Strike:

  • Central Labor Council of AFL, Alameda County. Papers.
  • Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University, San Francisco.
  • CIO History Vertical Files. International Longshoreman and Warehouseman’s Union Anne Rand Memorial Library, San Francisco.
  • Labor Studies Library. Laney College, Oakland.
  • Oakland History Vertical Files. Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library, Oakland.

NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS


NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS with coverage of the strike:

  • Berkeley Gazette
  • East Bay Labor Journal
  • Life
  • Newsweek
  • San Francisco Chronicle
  • San Francisco Examiner

ORAL HISTORIES

ORAL HISTORIES with accounts of the strike:

  • Ash, Robert. 1976. “Alameda Country Central Labor Council during the Warren Years,” an oral history conducted 1976 by Miriam Stein and Amelia Fry, in Labor Leaders View the Warren Era, Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

UNPUBLISHED SOURCES

UNPUBLISHED SOURCES

 

  • Boyden, Richard P. 1988. "The San Francisco Machinists from Depression to Cold War, 1930-1950." Ph.D. thesis. University of California, Berkeley.
  • Douma, Frank. 1951. “The Oakland General Strike.” Master’s thesis. University of California, Berkeley.
  • Jay, Richard E. 1953. "A Case Study in Retail Unionism: The Retail Clerks in the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda County)." Ph.D. thesis. University of California, Berkeley.
  • Robinson, Robert M. 1951. "A History of the Teamsters in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1850-1950." Ph.D. thesis. University of California, Berkeley.
  • Rhomberg, Chris. 1997. “Class Formation and Collective Action: The Oakland General Strike, 1946.” Master’s thesis. University of California,
    Berkeley.
  • Visnick, Benjamin. 1983. “Behind the 1946 Oakland General Strike.”

PUBLISHED SOURCES with reference to the Oakland General Strike

PUBLISHED SOURCES that explicitly mention the (1934 or) 1946 Oakland General Strike:

 

  • Bagwell, Beth. 1982. Oakland: The Story of a City. Oakland: Oakland Heritage Alliance.
  • Brecher, Jeremy. 1997. Strike! Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press.
  • Carlsson, Chris. 1998. “The Progress Club: 1934 and Class
    Memory,” in Brook, James; Carlsson, Chris; and Peters, Nancy J.,
    editors, pp. 67-87. Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics,
    Cultur    e. San Francisco: City Lights Books.
  • Glass, Fred. 1996. “We Called It a Work Holiday: The Oakland General Strike of 1946.” Labor’s Heritage 8, no. 2 (Fall): 4-25.
  • Harrington, Michael. 1962. The Retail Clerks. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Johnson, Marilynn. 1993. The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the
    East Bay in World War II    . Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • _____. 1995. “Mobilizing the Homefront: Labor and Politics in
    Oakland, 1941-1951.” In Working People of California, edited by D.
    Cornford, pp. 344-368. Berkley: University of California Press.
  • Krich, John. 1979. Bump City: Winners and Losers in Oakland. Berkeley: City Miner Books.
  • Lannon, Albert Vetere. 2000. Fight or Be Slaves: A History of the
    Oakland-East Bay Labor Movement    . Lantham, Md.: University Press of
    America.
  • Lipsitz, George. 1994. Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Mitford, Jessica. 1977 [orig. 1956]. A Fine Old Conflict. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Rhomberg, Chris. 2004. No There There: Race, Class, and Political
    Community in Oakland    . Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Self, Robert O. 2003. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Swados, Harvey. 1970. Standing Fast. New York: Ballantine Books.
  • Weir, Stan. 1975. “American Labor on the Defensive: A 1940s Odyssey,” Radical America 9, nos. 4-5 (July-Aug.) pp. 163-185.
  • ______. 2004 [orig. 1996]. Class War Lessons: From Direct Action on
    the Job to the ’46 Oakland General Strike    . Berkeley: IDP Editions.
  • ______. 1973.“The Informal Work Group,” in Lynd, Staughton and Alice, eds., pp. 148-183. Rank and File. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • _____. 1967. “Rank-And-File Rebellions Break Into the Open: The
    End of an Era,” in Lynd, Staughton, ed. American Labor Radicalism:
    Testimonies and Interpretations    . New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Wolman, Charles. 1975. “The Oakland General Strike of 1946.” Southern California Quarterly 57, no. 2: 147-179.

PUBLISHED SOURCES

PUBLISHED SOURCES with reference to Oakland/Bay Area or to class struggle during the period

 

  • Boyden, Richard. 1995. “The San Francisco Machinists and the National War Labor Board.” In American Labor in the Era of World War II, edited by S. Miller and D. Cornford, pp. 105-119. Westport,
    Conn.    : Praeger.
  • Bradford, Amory. 1968. Oakland’s Not for Burning. New York: David McKay.
  • Crouchett, Lawrence P., Bunch III, Lonnie G., and Winnacker, Martha Kendall. 1989. Visions Towards Tomorrow. Oakland: Northern CaliforniaCenter for Afro-American History and Life.
  • Dolsen, James H. 1920. The Defense of a Revolutionist: By Himself. Oakland: Published by James H. Dolsen.
  • Foner, Philip S., ed. 1964 [orig. 1947]. The Social Writings of Jack London. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press.
  • Hinckle, Warren. 1966. “Metropoly: The Story of Oakland, California.” Ramparts 4, no.6 (February): 25-50.
  • Jackson, Kenneth T. 1985. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: OxfordUniversity Press.
  • Kelley, Robin R. G. 2002. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • Lemke-Santagelo, Gretchen. 1996. Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East BayCommunity. Chapel Hill: University
    of North Carolina     Press.
  • Lotchin, Roger W. 2003. The BadCity in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles,Oakland, and San Diego. Bloomington:University of IndianaPress.
  • Ma, Eve Armentrout with Jeong Huei Ma. 1982. The Chinese of Oakland: Unsung Builders. Ed. Forrest Gok. Oakland: Oakland Chinese History Research Committee.
  • Minor, Woodruff. 2000. Pacific Gateway: An Illustrated History of the Port of Oakland. Oakland: Port of Oakland.
  • Nagler, Richard with Ishmael Reed. 1995. Oakland Rhapsody: The Secrets of An American Downtown. Berkeley:North Atlantic Books.
  • Preis, Art. 1972 [orig. 1964]. Labor’s Giant Step: Twenty Years of the CIO. New York: Pathfinder Press.
  • Praetzellis, Mary, ed. 1994. West Oakland: A Place to Start From. Research Design and Treatment Plan: Cypress I-880 Replacement Project, vol. 1: Historical Archaeology. Oakland: CALTRANS District 4.
  • Rather, Lois. 1972. Oakland’s Image: A History of Oakland, California. Oakland: The Rather Press.
  • Reed, Ishmael. 2003. Blues City: A Walk in Oakland. New York: Crown Journeys.
  • Seidman, Joel. 1953. American Labor from Defense to Reconversion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Selvin, David. 1975. Sky Full of Storm. Rev. ed. San Francisco: California Historical Society.
  • Walker, Dick and The Bay Area Study Group. 1990. “The Playground of US Capitalism?: The Political Economy of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s,” in Davis, Mike; Hiatt, Steven; Kennedy, Marie; Ruddick, Susan; and Sprinker, Michael, Editors, pp. 3-82 Fire in the Hearth: The Radical Politics of Place in America. London: Verso.
  • Wang, William. 1997. “White Fright Over Oakland Redistricting.” In MultiAmerica: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace, edited by Reed, Ishmael. New York: Viking.
  • Wasserman, Abby, ed. 2000. The Spirit of Oakland: An Anthology. Carlsbad, California: Heritage Media.
  • Weber, David. 1981. Oakland: Hub of the West. Tulsa: Continental Heritage Press.
  • Wollenberg, Charles. 1985. Golden Gate Metropolis: Perspectives on Bay Area History. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies University of California, Berkeley.
  • ______, Ed. Photographing the Second Gold Rush: Dorothea Lange and theBay Area at War, 1941-1945. Berkeley: Heyday Books.