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A Strike That Brought Unions to Power in the West
On this Labor Day, we thought we might talk about the history of labor in California. It starts with the Gold Rush, when San Francisco became the manufacturing hub for the Western U.S. to serve a burgeoning population. Former SF State history Professor Robert Cherny tells us unions rose and fell with the economy.

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