Sunshine Was Never Enough
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Sunshine Was Never Enough
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Author : John H. M. Laslett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-03-26
Sunshine Was Never Enough written by John H. M. Laslett and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-26 with History categories.
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. Laslett explains how, until the 1930s, many of L.A.'s workers were under the thumb of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association. This conservative organization kept wages low, suppressed trade unions, and made L.A. into the open shop capital of America. By contrast now, at a time when the AFL-CIO is at its lowest ebb--a young generation of Mexican and African American organizers has infused the L.A. movement with renewed strength. These stories of the men and women who pumped oil, loaded ships in San Pedro harbor, built movie sets, assembled aircraft, and in more recent times cleaned hotels and washed cars is a little-known but vital part of Los Angeles history.
Mr Sunny Sunshinetm There Are Never Enough Smiles
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Author : Dwayne S. Henson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2006-03-03
Mr Sunny Sunshinetm There Are Never Enough Smiles written by Dwayne S. Henson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-03 with Fiction categories.
Mr. Sunny Sunshine There are never enough smiles, is one of a variety of books within this inspiring children's book series featuring Mr. Sunny Sunshine. This story adventure begins with the idea that there are never enough smiles in the world. Mr. Sunny Sunshine begins on a mission to seek and find more ways to how he can create and share more smiles. He turns this idea into a full-fledge campaign as he inspires his readers to join along with him in a effort to create and share a lot more needed smiles in our world.
South Central Dreams
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Author : Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2021-07-13
South Central Dreams written by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the 2022 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Award, given by the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Finalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central Dreams, eminent scholars Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor follow its transformation from a historically Black neighborhood into a predominantly Latino one, providing a fresh, inside look at the fascinating—and constantly changing—relationships between these two racial and ethnic groups in California. Drawing on almost two hundred interviews and statistical data, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor explore the experiences of first- and second-generation Latino residents, their long-time Black neighbors, and local civic leaders seeking to build coalitions. Acknowledging early tensions between Black and Brown communities. they show how Latino immigrants settled into a new country and a new neighborhood, finding various ways to co-exist, cooperate, and, most recently, demonstrate Black-Brown solidarity at a time when both racial and ethnic communities have come under threat. Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor show how Latino and Black residents have practiced, and adapted innovative strategies of belonging in a historically Black context, ultimately crafting a new route to place-based identity and political representation. South Central Dreams illuminates how racial and ethnic demographic shifts—as well as the search for identity and belonging—are dramatically shaping American cities and neighborhoods around the country.
Boyle Heights
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Author : George J. Sánchez
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-07-12
Boyle Heights written by George J. Sánchez and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with History categories.
The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. “When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.”—George J. Sánchez The vision for America’s cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of the "great melting pot." That idea of diversity often imagined ethnically distinct urban districts—the Little Italys, Koreatowns, and Jewish quarters of American cities—built up over generations and occupying spaces that excluded one another. But the neighborhood of Boyle Heights shows us something altogether different: a dynamic, multiracial community that has forged solidarity through a history of social and political upheaval. Boyle Heights is an in-depth history of the Los Angeles neighborhood, showcasing the potent experiences of its residents, from early contact between Spanish colonizers and native Californians to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the hunt for hidden Communists among the Jewish population, negotiating citizenship and belonging among Latino migrants and Mexican American residents, and beyond. Through each period and every struggle, the residents of Boyle Heights have maintained remarkable solidarity across racial and ethnic lines, acting as a unified polyglot community even as their tribulations have become more explicitly racial in nature. Boyle Heights is immigrant America embodied, and it can serve as the true beacon on a hill toward which the country can strive in a time when racial solidarity and civic resistance have never been in greater need.
Making A Modern U S West
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Author : Sarah Deutsch
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2022
Making A Modern U S West written by Sarah Deutsch and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest story of its history, and the imagined blank slate on which the country's future would be written. From the Spanish-American War in 1898 to the Great Depression's end, from the Mississippi to the Pacific, policymakers at various levels and large-scale corporate investors, along with those living in the West and its borderlands, struggled over who would define modernity, who would participate in the modern American West, and who would be excluded. In Making a Modern U.S. West Sarah Deutsch surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940. Centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region--the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders--Deutsch attends to the region's role in constructing U.S. racial formations and argues that the West as a region was as important as the South in constructing the United States as a "white man's country." While this racial formation was linked to claims of modernity and progress by powerful players, Deutsch shows that visions of what constituted modernity were deeply contested by others. This expansive volume presents the most thorough examination to date of the American West from the late 1890s to the eve of World War II.
A Connected Metropolis
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Author : Maxwell Johnson
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023-07
A Connected Metropolis written by Maxwell Johnson and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07 with History categories.
In A Connected Metropolis Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles’s rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a series of upper-class debates about the city’s connections to the outside world. By focusing on specific moments in the city’s development when tensions over Los Angeles’s connections, or lack thereof, emerged, Johnson ties each movement to two or three contemporary figures who influenced the debates at hand. The elites’ previous efforts to secure nationwide and global connections for Los Angeles were wildly successful following World War II. As a result, the city became a landing spot for African American migrants, Cambodian and Laotian refugees, and Mexican and Central American immigrants. Johnson argues that the city’s history is more defined by external relationships than previously understood, and those relationships have given the history of the city more continuity than originally recognized. At the turn of the twentieth century, the politics of connection revolved around initiatives to tie Los Angeles to other places both tangibly and metaphorically. Elites built tangible connections to secure, among other things, the water that irrigated the citrus farms of Los Angeles, the capital that propelled its businesses, and the people who migrated from the Midwest to buy its houses. To build metaphorical connections that located the city amid transcontinental and trans-Pacific movements, elites themselves often transcended nearby borders and pursued connections at will. Los Angeles stood as a focal point for elite ambitions, a place with a more ambivalent relationship to external connections. The true story of Los Angeles’s rise lies in the spectacular visions and rambunctious activism of a group of elite men dedicated to transforming a remote frontier town into a global metropolis.
Under The Iron Heel
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Author : Ahmed White
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024-02-13
Under The Iron Heel written by Ahmed White and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-13 with History categories.
2022 International Labor History Association Book of the Year A dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies—and how the destruction of their union haunts us to this day. In 1917, the Industrial Workers of the World was rapidly gaining strength and members. Within a decade, this radical union was effectively destroyed, the victim of the most remarkable campaign of legal repression and vigilantism in American history. Under the Iron Heel is the first comprehensive account of this campaign. Founded in 1905, the IWW offered to the millions of workers aggrieved by industrial capitalism the promise of a better world. But its growth, coinciding with World War I and the Russian Revolution and driven by uncompromising militancy, was seen by powerful capitalists and government officials as an existential threat that had to be eliminated. In Under the Iron Heel, Ahmed White documents the torrent of legal persecution and extralegal, sometimes lethal violence that shattered the IWW. In so doing, he reveals the remarkable courage of those who faced this campaign, lays bare the origins of the profoundly unequal and conflicted nation we know today, and uncovers disturbing truths about the law, political repression, and the limits of free speech and association in class society.
Mr Sunny Sunshinetm Today S Lesson Is All About A Smile
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Author : Dwayne S. Henson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2007-10-31
Mr Sunny Sunshinetm Today S Lesson Is All About A Smile written by Dwayne S. Henson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-31 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Mr. Sunny Sunshine Today's lesson is all About a Smile, is one of a variety of books within this inspiring children's book series featuring Mr. Sunny Sunshine. This is the final key closing book to this series. This book provides an overview summary of the total combined books comprised in this unique collection of Mr. Sunny Sunshine books. As readers journey along with Mr. Sunny Sunshine in this adventure you'll be provided with a fascinating close-up lesson about the positive inspirational vale that smiles create and provide in our society. Creating celebrating and learning about the positive inspirational magic created from smiles is what this book series is all about orchestrated by the inspirational guidance of Mr. Sunny Sunshine.
Me My Smiles And I
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Author : Dwayne S. Henson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2008-01-21
Me My Smiles And I written by Dwayne S. Henson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-21 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Mr. Sunny Sunshine Me my smiles and I. This book is one of a variety of books within this inspiring children's book series featuring Mr. Sunny Sunshine. In this imaginative journey adventure Mr. Sunny Sunshine shares with us some of the things that he likes to do, when there's no one around, except for just him and his smiles. Mr. Sunny Sunshine welcomes and invites you along in this fascinating journey adventure. You may be surprised with what you can do when you use a little imagination and a smile or two to create fun and entertainment.
The Recursive Frontier
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Author : Michael Docherty
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2024-05-01
The Recursive Frontier written by Michael Docherty and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Recursive Frontier is an innovative spatial history of both the literature of Los Angeles and the city itself in the mid-twentieth century. Setting canonical texts alongside underexamined works and sources such as census bulletins and regional planning documents, Michael Docherty identifies the American frontier as the defining dynamic of Los Angeles fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s. Contrary to the received wisdom that Depression-era narratives mourn the frontier's demise, Docherty argues that the frontier lives on as a cruel set of rules for survival in urban modernity, governing how texts figure race, space, mobility, and masculinity. Moving from dancehalls to offices to oil fields and beyond, the book provides a richer, more diverse picture of LA's literary production during this period, as well as a vivid account of LA's cultural and social development as it transformed into the multiethnic megalopolis we know today.