Sunshine was never enough
Subtitle: Los Angeles workers, 1880-2010
By: John H.M. Laslett
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780520273450; 9780520953871
Subjects: History; Labor movement; Working class; Labor
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.