Sunshine was never enough : Los Angeles workers, 1880-2010 / John H.M. Laslett.

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Laslett, John H. M

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text

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online resource

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9780520273450
0520273451
9780520953871
0520953878
9781283584098
1283584093

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sunshine was never enough.DDC classification:

331.09794/940904 23

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HD8083.C2 L37 2012eb

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Contents:

pt. 1: Under the thumb of the open shop. Myth versus reality in the making of the Southern California working class, 1880-1903 ; "It's class war, without a doubt" : The open shop battle intensifies, 1904-1916 ; Grassroots insurgencies and the impact of World War I, 1905-1924 ; Moving to the "industrial suburbs" : from Hollywood to South Gate, and from Signal Hill to the Citrus Belt, 1919-1929 -- pt. 2: Organized labor comes into its own. Unemployment, Upton Sinclair's EPIC campaign, and the search for a New Deal political coalition, 1929-1941 ; Raising consciousness at the workplace : Anglos, Mexicans, and the founding of the Los Angeles CIO, 1933-1938 ; Battle royal : AFL versus CIO, and the decline of the open shop, 1936-1941 ; "Two steps forward, one step back"? : L.A. workers in World War II, 1941-1945 -- pt. 3: Cultural change and the emergence of a new industrial order. "Caught between consumption and the Cold War" : rebuilding working-class politics, 1945-1968 ; Employment, housing, and the struggle for equality in the era of civil rights, 1965-1980 ; Globalization, labor's decline, and the coming of a service and high-tech economy, 1970-1994 ; False dawn? : L.A.'s labor-Latino alliance takes center stage, 1990-2010.

Summary: Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles's large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century of labor history, John H.M. Laslett acknowledges the advantages Southern California's climate, open spaces, and bucolic character offered to generations of newcomers. At the same time, he demonstrates that--in terms of wages, hours, and conditions of work--L.A. differed very little from America's other industrial cities. Laslett shows how labor in all its guises--blue and white collar, industrial, agricultural, and high tech--shaped the neighborhoods, economic policies, racial attitudes, and class perceptions of the City of Angels.--From publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-416) and index.

Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles's large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century of labor history, John H.M. Laslett acknowledges the advantages Southern California's climate, open spaces, and bucolic character offered to generations of newcomers. At the same time, he demonstrates that--in terms of wages, hours, and conditions of work--L.A. differed very little from America's other industrial cities. Laslett shows how labor in all its guises--blue and white collar, industrial, agricultural, and high tech--shaped the neighborhoods, economic policies, racial attitudes, and class perceptions of the City of Angels.--From publisher description.