1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462156903321

Autore

Laslett John H. M

Titolo

Sunshine was never enough [[electronic resource] ] : Los Angeles workers, 1880-2010 / / John H.M. Laslett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-58409-3

0-520-95387-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (457 p.)

Disciplina

331.09794/940904

Soggetti

Working class - California - Los Angeles - History

Labor - California - Los Angeles - History

Labor movement - California - Los Angeles - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Scope and Purpose -- Part One: Under the Thumb of the Open Shop -- Part Two: Organized Labor comes into its own -- Part Three: Cultural Change and the Emergence of a new Industrial Order -- Conclusion: Comparative Reflections -- Notes -- Primary Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 1930's, 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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394867603316

Autore

Mauriceau François <1637-1709.>

Titolo

The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed [[electronic resource] ] : As also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work much more perfect than any yet extant in English: being very necessary for all teeming-women, as also for all physicians, chirurgeans and midwives that practise this art. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated, and enlarged with some marginal notes, by Hugh Chamberlen M.D. and Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed by J. Darby, to be sold by Benjamin Billingsley at the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1673

Descrizione fisica

[22], 224, 223-239, 238-437, [7] p., [21] leaves of plates, folding : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

ChamberlenHugh

Soggetti

Obstetrics

Women - Medical examinations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A translation of: Traité des maladies des femmes grosses.

Text is continuous despite pagination.

With an index.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018