From riots to recession: the challenge to low-wage work in Los Angeles -- Garment workers: fighting to end sweatshops -- Day laborers: organizing the corner -- Retail workers: negotiating community benefits -- Grocery workers: blocking the big-box invasion -- Truck drivers: challenging misclassification -- An equal place? Empirical appraisal and theoretical implications
Summary
In 'An Equal Place', Scott Cummings focuses on the movement for a living wage in Los Angeles and explores greater implications for the role of contemporary lawyers outside of the courtroom. The campaign to implement a living wage in L.A. was the most famous effort in the country, and advocates for it were largely successful, in part because they used the law to advance their agenda
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed May 4, 2021)
