Winner, Silver Medal, California Book Awards—Commonwealth Club of California With a foreword by William Deverell The Indispensable Enemy examines the anti-Chinese confrontationon the Pacific Coast as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majority. Focusing on the Democratic party and the labor movement of California through the forty-year period after the Civil War, AlexanderSaxton explores aspects of the Jacksonian background which proves crucial to an understanding of what occurred in California. The Indispensable Enemy looks beyond the turn of the 19th century to traceresults of the sequence of events in the West for the labor movement as a whole, influencingevents that led to the crystallization of an American concept of national identity.

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The Indispensable Enemy
Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE LABOR FORCE IN CALIFORNIA
- 2 IDEOLOGICAL BAGGAGE
- 3 MINES AND RAILROADS
- 4 REHABILITATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
- 5 THE ROAD TO REUNION
- 6 THE WORKINGMEN'S PARTY
- 7 WORKINGMEN AND THE "SYSTEM"
- 8 THE SOCIALIST ACADEMY
- 9 DEADLOCK OF LEADERSHIP
- 10 THE FEDERATED TRADES
- 11 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
- 12 A FORWARD GLANCE
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE
- INDEX
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