David Palmer

American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Terminology Introduction: The Role of Colonialism Part One: CHARTING THE PACIFIC 1. Empire and Migration 2. Education in the Metropole Part Two: WORKING THE AMERICAN WEST 3. Region and Labor 4. Crossings and Connections Part Three:POWER AND CHOICE 5. Resistance, Return, and Organization 6. Insiders and Outsiders Conclusion: The Past and the Furture Notes Bibliography Index

Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century

In Solidarity and Survival, three generations of Iowa workers tell of their unrelenting efforts to create a labor movement in the coal mines and on the rails, in packinghouses and farm equipment plants, on construction sites and in hospital wards. Drawing on nearly one thousand interviews collected over more than a decade by oral historians working for the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Shelton Stromquist presents the resonant voices of the men and women who defined a new, prominent place for themselves in the lives of their communities and in the politics of their state.