Building the Golden Gate Bridge, An Oral History

Show #112 | Guest: Harvey Schwartz, curator of the Oral History Collection, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Library, San Francisco. | Show Summary: Moving beyond familiar accounts of politics, celebrity engineers, and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Worker’s Oral History by Harvey Schwartz gives the voices of the workers themselves center stage. The survivors vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories of constructing the landmark span during the Great Depression.