"Politics of Labor in the 1930s"
Steve Leiken
Department of History
San Francisco State University

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Steve Leiken link is a lecturer at San Francisco State University. He received his Phd from UC Berkeley in 1992 and specializes in the history of US labor movements. He is the author of The Practical Utopians : American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2005.

Speaker's handout 1 pdf
Speaker's handout 2 pdf

Other links
* Links active as of March 2010

• Text of the National Industrial Recovery Act
  http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=66
  
  
• National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Industrial_Recovery_Act
  
  
• 1934 West Coast waterfront strike
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_West_Coast_waterfront_strike
  
  
• San Francisco General Strike of 1934 photographic collections, via Calisphere, California Digital Library
  http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/browse
  /keyword/general+strike+1934
  
  
• San Francisco News' coverage of “Bloody Thursday” and the General Strike – 1934
  http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/thursday.html
  
  
• 75th Anniversary of San Francisco General Strike
  http://www.sfgeneralstrike.org/
  
  
• Videos of the 1934 Waterfront strike in San Francisco
  http://www.archive.org/details/ssfGNSTRIK1
  
  
• The Big Strike: A Journalist Describes the 1934 San Francisco Strike
  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/124/
  
  
• Charles Postel Lecture: "Labor History"
  (OUSD TAHG Summer Institute, June, 2003)
  http://www.teachingamericanhistory.us/tah_1
  /speakers/postel.htm
  
  
• San Francisco General Strike > Video footage & narration.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dku-MFnIxaU
  
  
• Labor Archives & Research Center Newsletter
  http://www.library.sfsu.edu/about/depts/larc-newsletter.html
  
  
• Labor Archives and Research Center
  http://www.library.sfsu.edu/about/depts/larc.php