Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880-2010
Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880-2010 by John H. M. Laslett
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0520273451, 0520282191 | 460 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0520273451, 0520282191 | 460 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
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. Both fast-paced and sophisticated, Sunshine Was Never Enough 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.