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The East Bay Alliance for Sustainable Employment works with other community groups to ensure that Oakland's economy grows without displacing the people that have made Oakland the vibrant, diverse, culturally rich place that it is.
In Oakland, where residents are still recovering from the crack epidemic and disinvestment that hit the city in the 1980s, formerly incarcerated residents struggle to establish sustainable careers to sustain their families.
The informal economy is widespread, diverse, and deeply tied to the formal economy. It is also full of paradoxes and contradictions, which make it difficult to find simple solutions.
Not only did neoliberalism redefine the role of the state, it also intensified the speed and depth of globalization, which radically transformed the economy.
Capitalism is perceived to be a result of policy, social norms, and race and gender discrimination that have ensured a large pool of workers willing to work for low wages.
While Mexican immigrants continue to be demonized and characterized as “criminals,” “drug dealers,” “rapists,” “illegal aliens” and “invaders” by American leaders and millions of citizens, they have essentially become “foreigners in their own land.
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A look at different eras and movements defining the informal economy and the systematic dislocation of many people from the labor market — including people of color, women and immigrants.
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This episode journeys to the Smith River near the Oregon border to discover how the Tolowa Dee-ni’ are reviving traditional harvesting of shellfish while working with state agencies to monitor toxicity levels.
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California is the world's fifth largest economy — yet, hiding in plain sight are workers who labor off the books, unprotected and unregulated. Follow four California workers organizing to find pathways for legalization and protection.
An extensive look at the historical moments important in shaping Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Times.
The course of the Chandler dynasty defies easy telling, in part because it too has been embroidered with so much mythology.
Carey McWilliams built a career in print that contradicted the dreamlike image of California heavily promoted by Harrison Gray Otis and his son-in-law/successor, Harry Chandler.