After a nine-day vacation in the northeast, mostly to Montreal to see my daughter, I’m back in SF in good health and spirits. Thought I might’ve posted while travelling, but it’s still not so convenient to spend time on-line when away from home. Lots to say about friends and places in the east, but this […]
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This is a review of a couple of books I just wrote for the ILWU’s The Dispatcher. Low Pay High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor by Andrew Ross (2004, The New Press: New York) Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870 by Beverly J. Silver (2003, Cambridge University Press: UK) Longshore […] Spent the bulk of the long weekend at a bucolic bit of land west of the Mendocino town of Willits. The denizens call it “Witness Peak” and there is a spectacular small volcanic peak right in its midsts, along with a variety of rolling poison-oak covered hills, beautiful buildings built over the past decades, and […] |
 NEW 2nd EDITION NOW AVAILABLE! Buy one here (Pluto Press, Spring 2025)  NOW AVAILABLE! Buy one here (Spuyten Duyvil, October 2023)  Shift Happens! Critical Mass at 20 (2012)  Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78 (2011)  Nowtopia (2008)  After the Deluge (2004)  The Political Edge (2004)  Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration (2002)  Reclaiming San Francisco: History Culture Politics (1998)  Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology (1990)  Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay (2nd edition: 2011) All books available at chriscarlsson.com/stuff. |
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