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• W105454358 abstract "PLAYING CATCH­UP: THE LABOR MOVEMENT IN LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO, 1985­2005 John H.M. Laslett, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Department of History “Los Angeles was built by a business oligarchy ... that fashioned this city as a counterpoint to heavily unionized San Francisco. Here, those tycoons argued, businesses could locate without the threat of strikes or labor violence... Today, the city’s historic Republican, anti­labor politics have given way to the opposite. Los Angeles is dominated by Democratic politicians and their [labor] allies.” Los Angeles Times March 27, 2006, p. A9. 1. INTRODUCTION For those familiar with pre­World War II California history, the first part of the above quotation will come as no surprise. Social commentators have often counter­posed Los Angeles with San Francisco, no more so than in the area of working class history. Besides being a “fragmented metropolis” with no tradition of working class protest, Los Angeles has traditionally been seen as an “open shop” town where unions are weak and the civic culture parochial and conservative. San Francisco, on the other hand – with its powerful building trades council and its militant Longshoremen’s Union – is usually described as an open, class­conscious, and politically liberal city (as well as being America’s “union town” par excellence). Given the assumptions that lie behind this exaggerated version of history, the second part of the quotation may well give the reader pause. Is it really true, at a time when the AFL­CIO nationally is in deep decline, that LA’s immigrant­led unions (many of which barely existed in the 1970s), have not only bucked the national trend but have caught up with – and perhaps even surpassed – the powerful San Francisco labor movement? For supporters of a hoped­for revival in America’s national labor movement, this shift seems too good to be true. Moreover, the impact on public policy and the general political climate in California on a variety of labor­related issues could be dramatic. Nevertheless the answer to this question, if the available statistics are accurate, is “Yes.” Recent research shows that the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LAFED), with some 800,000 members, is almost twice as big as its northern counterpart. Given the larger overall size of the LA workforce, San Francisco’s advantage in absolute numbers is not surprising. It is the change in relative union density levels that is remarkable. By 2001­02, the historic gap in union density between the two cities had narrowed to less than half a percentage point: 16.9% for the Bay Area and 16.5% for Los Angeles. Numerous differences continue to exist between the labor movements in the two cities. Asians" @default.
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