Charles Schwab, though ruthless with unions, wanted his employees to feel as if they were part of the team. He often did this by sponsering company baseball leagues, choir groups, and he invented an ingenuous new alternative to labor unions: Company Unions.
Part 2 — Schwab’s Gamble for War
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By Jonathan Haeber

Union Iron Works, headed by Irving M. Scott, had become a major war contractor leading up to the Spanish American War and the occupation of Hawaii in the 1890s. Dogpatch was filled in with rock by the railroad companies and Pier 70 became Union Iron Works’ center of operations.
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Cell Block “C” at the Fort Ord Stockade Confinement Facility. This abandoned prison was where the “Fort Ord 14” protested unfair treatment and poor prison conditions.
While studying at Berkeley’s Geography Department, I had the unique privilege of taking classes from professors like Dick Walker and Ruthie Gilmore. Both focused much of their […]