SALLY M. MILLER is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She specializes in American immigration history and women and labor issues. Miller is the author of several books including From Prairie to Prison: The Life of Social Activist Kate Richards O'Hare (1993), The Ethnic Press(Greenwood Press, 1987) and wed Liberationeenwood, 1981).DANIEL A. CORNFORD is Associate Professor of History at San Jose State University, California. His special interests are American labor history and California social history./e He is the editor of Working People of California (1995), an associate editor of The Emma Goldman Papers (microfilm edition, 1992), and the author of Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire (1987).

• Acknowledgments Introduction by Sally M. Miller and Daniel A. Cornford Labor in the National Arena CIO Leaders and the State, 1935-1955 by Robert H. Zieger The Law of Collective Bargaining and Wartime Labor Regulations by James A. Atleson The United Steelworkers of America and Health Insurance, 1937-1962 by Alan Derickson Struggles at the Workplace Wartime Shipyards: The Transformation of Labor in San Francisco's East Bay by Marilynn S. Johnson The San Francisco Machinists and the National War Labor Board by Richard P. Boyden Who Controls the Hiring Hall? The Struggle for Job Control in the ILWU during World War II by Nancy L. Quam-Wickham Race, Gender, and Community "Her Husband Didn't Have a Word to Say:" Black Women and Blues Clubs in Richmond, California During World War II by Shirley Ann Moore African-American Migrant Women in the San Francisco East Bay Area by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo Catalyst for Change: Wartime Housing and African Americans in California's East Bay by Delores Nason McBroome The CIO: A Vanguard for Civil Rights in Southern California, 1940-1946 by David Oberweiser, Jr. Index