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How are ideas about design, art, the global economy and urban planning tied to the concept of work? UCLA professors Willem Henri Lucas, Catherine Opie, Alfred Osborne and Abel Valenzuela discuss "What is Work?"
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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.
All-time low unemployment rates for the City of Long Beach made headlines last June, however, taking a look at rates by census tracts reveals that the City of Long Beach has tracts with some of the highest unemployment rates in all of Los Angeles County.
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Nearly 17 percent of workers in the US are immigrants. Take them away, and the economy would tank.
Why did the film industry choose to locate in L.A.? Thank the weather – as well as the city's open-shop, anti-union labor policies.
Kidney failure in agriculture workers around the globe is a symptom of a warming planet.
Objections from brick-and-mortar businesses have been shoved aside
Thirty miles in radius, the Hollywood Studio Zone grants the film industry a specific geography within the L.A. metropolis. (And yes, that's how TMZ got its name.)
Street vendors rely on informal "micro-economies" to sustain their families while their children endure uncertainty as city officials remain indecisive as to how to legalize street vending.
"The man with the hoe is gone. Six hundred thousand of him left the fields of America last year," observed the Los Angeles Times in April of 1918.…
Twenty years ago this month, a raid on an El Monte sweatshop holding 72 Thai laborers in captivity opened the public's eyes to how such severe labor exploitation can exist in the Land of the Free.