San Francisco to Bodie

Description

This three-year window into California labor history first shows Nellie Cashman unable to prosper in the swirling currents of San Francisco’s sour economy, undigested immigrants, and Chinese labor exclusion. Later she assessed opportunities in Bodie, California where an astonishing Fourth of July celebration demonstrated the making of Americans in the mining camps of the West, and a labor-management explosion the next year gave a brief but important victory to a wrathful union.

Paperback

210 pages

Published 2020

ISBN: 978-0-9980082-2-6