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SUMMARY:IRLE Colloquia Series — Book Talk: Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers\, 1880-2010
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.\nLaslett 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.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/irle-colloquia-series-book-talk-sunshine-was-never-enough-los-angeles-workers-1880-2010/
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SUMMARY:IRLE Colloquia Series — The Crisis of Public Sector Unionism
DESCRIPTION:Unionism and collective bargaining among U.S. state and local government employees are being widely debated\, and some of these governments have sharply reduced or eliminated public employee unionism and bargaining rights. Such actions are based on a belief that fiscal adversity facing state and local governments stems mainly from the over-compensation of public employees that has ostensibly resulted from unionism\, bargaining and supportive legislation enacted decades earlier. These changes\, however\, are being made with little or no consideration of empirical evidence about public-private sector pay and benefit relationships\, the effects of unions on state and local government employee pay\, the effectiveness of employment dispute resolution procedures\, including arbitration\, and the ability of state and local government labor and management to effectively combat fiscal adversity and enhance organizational performance. In this presentation\, Professor Lewin will provide new evidence showing that\, on balance\, state and local government employees are undercompensated relative to their private sector counterparts\, and that the effects of unions on compensation are considerably smaller in state and local government than in the private sector. Further\, available evidence indicates that state and local government employment dispute resolution procedures work reasonably well based on process and outcome assessments\, and that labor and management in these governments can use mutual gains negotiations to benefit not just themselves but citizens and communities more broadly. Finally\, he will propose a research agenda for a new generation of scholars so that they\, like their predecessors\, can influence policy makers in making high stakes decisions about state and local government unionism and collective bargaining.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/irle-colloquia-series-the-crisis-of-public-sector-unionism/
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