Playing Catch-Up: The Labor Movement in Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1985-2005

"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" Source: UCLA School of Public Affairs

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