Author: Los Angeles County (Calif.). Aerospace Task Force
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerospace industries
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Los Angeles County Aerospace Task Force Report
Author: Los Angeles County (Calif.). Aerospace Task Force
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerospace industries
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerospace industries
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
2004 Report of the Governor's Aerospace Task Force
Author: Oklahoma. Governor's Aerospace Task Force
Publisher:
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Category : Aerospace industries
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerospace industries
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Report of the Governor's Task Force on Aerospace-Aviation Education
Author: California. Governor's Task Force on Aerospace-Aviation Education
Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Report of the Governor's Task Force on Aerospace-Aviation Education
Author: California. Govenor's Task Force on Aerospace-Aviation Education
Publisher:
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Los Angeles Task Force on the Arts Report
Author: Los Angeles Task Force on the Arts
Publisher:
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Category : Art and state
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art and state
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Smogtown
Author: Chip Jacobs
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1590207645
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
“A zany and provocative cultural history” of LA’s infamous air pollution and the struggle to combat it from the 1940s to today (Kirkus). The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse—it came from within, from Southern California’s burgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle. Smogtown is the story of pollution, progress, and how an optimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airborne poisons barraging their hometowns. There are scofflaws and dirty deals aplenty, plus murders, suicides, and an ever-present paranoia about mass disaster. California based journalists Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly highlight the bold personalities involved, the corporate-tainted science, the terrifying health costs, the attempts at cleanup, and how the smog battle helped mold the modern-day culture of Los Angeles.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1590207645
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
“A zany and provocative cultural history” of LA’s infamous air pollution and the struggle to combat it from the 1940s to today (Kirkus). The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse—it came from within, from Southern California’s burgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle. Smogtown is the story of pollution, progress, and how an optimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airborne poisons barraging their hometowns. There are scofflaws and dirty deals aplenty, plus murders, suicides, and an ever-present paranoia about mass disaster. California based journalists Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly highlight the bold personalities involved, the corporate-tainted science, the terrifying health costs, the attempts at cleanup, and how the smog battle helped mold the modern-day culture of Los Angeles.
Progress Report of the Presidential Task Force on Los Angeles Recovery
Author: United States. Presidential Task Force on Los Angeles Recovery
Publisher:
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Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Toward an ADEPT California
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Democratic Economic Prosperity Team
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Employment and Training Reporter
Sunshine Was Never Enough
Author: John H. M. Laslett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520282191
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520282191
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.