The Yanks Are Striking: Kern County, the 1921 Oil Strike and the Discourse on Americanism
In the fall of 1921 oil workers of the San Joaquin Valley faced a post-war economic slump, wage cuts across the board and an increasingly hostile attitude of oil operators towards consultation with the federal government on labor relations. They voted to strike, and the next day eight thousand worke...
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DigitalCommons@CalPoly
2020
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| Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2197 https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3646&context=theses |