The Indispensable Enemy

Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California

By: Alexander Saxton

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Paperback | 23 June 1975 | Edition Number 1

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Winner, Silver Medal, California Book Awardsâ"Commonwealth Club of California

With a foreword by William Deverell

The Indispensable Enemy examines the anti-Chinese confrontation on 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, Alexander Saxton 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 trace results of the sequence of events in the West for the labor movement as a whole, influencing events that led to the crystallization of an American concept of national identity.

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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
The Labor Force in California	p. 3
Ideological Baggage	p. 19
Mines and Railroads	p. 46
Rehabilitation of the Democratic Party	p. 67
The Road to Reunion	p. 92
The Workingmen's Party	p. 113
Workingmen and the "System"	p. 138
The Socialist Academy	p. 157
Deadlock of Leadership	p. 179
The Federated Trades	p. 201
The Progressive Era	p. 229
A Forward Glance	p. 258
Bibliographic Note	p. 285
Index	p. 287
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