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Title:
Sunshine was never enough : Los Angeles workers, 1880-2010
Author:
Laslett, John H. M.
ISBN:
9780520273450

9780520953871

9781283584098
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 442 pages) : illustrations, maps
Abstract:
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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