ISBN:
9780520273450
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0520273451
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9780520953871
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0520953878
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9781283584098
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1283584093
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiii, 442 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Laslett, John H.M. Sunshine was never enough
DDC:
331.09794/940904
Keywords:
Geschichte 1880-2010
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Labor
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Labor movement
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Working class
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Working class History
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Labor History
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Labor movement History
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Arbeitsbedingungen
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Gewerkschaft
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Arbeiter
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Arbeiterklasse
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Los Angeles, Calif.
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Online-Publikation
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Los Angeles, Calif.
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Arbeiter
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Arbeiterklasse
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Arbeitsbedingungen
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Gewerkschaft
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Geschichte 1880-2010
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
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