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Book Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library  University of California  Berkeley

Download or read book Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library University of California Berkeley written by University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. Library and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working Mother

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Working Mother written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.

Book West Covina  Proposed General Plan

Download or read book West Covina Proposed General Plan written by Simon Eisner and Associates and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community

Download or read book Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community written by Gilda L. Ochoa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants to the United States seem to share a common cultural identity but often make uneasy neighbors. Discrimination and assimilationist policies have influenced generations of Mexican Americans so that some now fear that the status they have gained by assimilating into American society will be jeopardized by Spanish-speaking newcomers. Other Mexican Americans, however, adopt a position of group solidarity and work to better the social conditions and educational opportunities of Mexican immigrants. Focusing on the Mexican-origin, working-class city of La Puente in Los Angeles County, California, this book examines Mexican Americans' everyday attitudes toward and interactions with Mexican immigrants—a topic that has so far received little serious study. Using in-depth interviews, participant observations, school board meeting minutes, and other historical documents, Gilda Ochoa investigates how Mexican Americans are negotiating their relationships with immigrants at an interpersonal level in the places where they shop, worship, learn, and raise their families. This research into daily lives highlights the centrality of women in the process of negotiating and building communities and sheds new light on identity formation and group mobilization in the U.S. and on educational issues, especially bilingual education. It also complements previous studies on the impact of immigration on the wages and employment opportunities of Mexican Americans.

Book City of Industry

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  • Author : Victor Valle
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2009-09-09
  • ISBN : 0813548381
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book City of Industry written by Victor Valle and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1957, the Southern California suburb prophetically named City of Industry today represents, in the words of Victor Valle, "The gritty crossroads of the global trade revolution that is transforming Southern California factories into warehouses, and adjacent working class communities into economic and environmental sacrifice zones choking on cheap goods and carcinogenic diesel exhaust." City of Industry is a stunning exposé on the construction of corporate capitalist spaces. Valle investigated an untapped archive of Industry's built landscape, media coverage, and public records, including sealed FBI reports, to uncover a cascading series of scandals. A kaleidoscopic view of the corruption that resulted when local land owners, media barons, and railroads converged to build the city, this suspenseful narrative explores how new governmental technologies and engineering feats propelled the rationality of privatization using their property-owning servants as tools. Valle's tale of corporate greed begins with the city's founder James M. Stafford and ends with present day corporate heir, Edward Roski Jr., the nation's biggest industrial developerùco-owner of the L.A. Staples Arena and possible future owner of California's next NFL franchise. Not to be forgotten in Valle's captivating story are Latino working class communities living within Los Angeles's distribution corridors, who suffer wealth disparities and exposure to air pollution as a result of diesel-burning trucks, trains, and container ships that bring global trade to their very doorsteps. They are among the many victims of City of Industry.

Book Los Angeles  Federal Center Master Plan

Download or read book Los Angeles Federal Center Master Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Walnut

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  • Author : Walnut (Calif.)
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0738595470
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Walnut written by Walnut (Calif.) and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Walnut is approximately 8.9 square miles and is home to more than 32,000 people. It is primarily a residential community, but it has more than 600 businesses. The city has a rural charm that is preserved by a well-defined general plan. Nestled at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains and approximately 22 miles east of Los Angeles at the junction of four counties--Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino--Walnut is considered a bedroom community with rural charm and cultural diversity.

Book California EIR Monitor

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  • Author : California. Resources Agency
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book California EIR Monitor written by California. Resources Agency and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book L A  s Titans of Temple Street

Download or read book L A s Titans of Temple Street written by Tom Sitton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies Los Angeles County and its government since World War II. A special focus is given to the "Titans of Temple Street," the five-member Board of Supervisors that determines policies and actions for many issues throughout the county, especially for residents who do not live in the county's 88 cities. It is the largest of all U.S. counties, with a population of more than 10 million, more residents than 41 states, and an annual budget of more than $44 billion, more than all but 19 states. It has served as an innovative example of county government since the early 1900s.

Book Civilization

Download or read book Civilization written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine of the Library of Congress.

Book Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project  TRTP

Download or read book Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project TRTP written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book City of Suspects

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  • Author : Pablo Piccato
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2001-09-26
  • ISBN : 0822380714
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book City of Suspects written by Pablo Piccato and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In City of Suspects Pablo Piccato explores the multiple dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City. Basing his research on previously untapped judicial sources, prisoners’ letters, criminological studies, quantitative data, newspapers, and political archives, Piccato examines the paradoxes of repressive policies toward crime, the impact of social rebellion on patterns of common crime, and the role of urban communities in dealing with transgression on the margins of the judical system. By investigating postrevolutionary examples of corruption and organized crime, Piccato shines light on the historical foundations of a social problem that remains the main concern of Mexico City today. Emphasizing the social construction of crime and the way it was interpreted within the moral economy of the urban poor, he describes the capital city during the early twentieth century as a contested territory in which a growing population of urban poor had to negotiate the use of public spaces with more powerful citizens and the police. Probing official discourse on deviance, Piccato reveals how the nineteenth-century rise of positivist criminology—which asserted that criminals could be readily distinguished from the normal population based on psychological and physical traits—was used to lend scientific legitimacy to class stratifications and to criminalize working-class culture. Furthermore, he argues, the authorities’ emphasis on punishment, isolation, and stigmatization effectively created cadres of professional criminals, reshaping crime into a more dangerous problem for all inhabitants of the capital. This unique investigation into crime in Mexico City will interest Latin Americanists, sociologists, and historians of twentieth-century Mexican history.

Book L  A  Freeway

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  • Author : David Brodsly
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1983-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520045460
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book L A Freeway written by David Brodsly and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book House Reports

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  • Publisher : Government Printing Office
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1912 pages

Download or read book House Reports written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 1912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Other Rebellion

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  • Author : Eric Van Young
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780804748216
  • Pages : 722 pages

Download or read book The Other Rebellion written by Eric Van Young and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that in addition to being a war of national liberation, Mexico's movement toward independence from Spain was also an internal war pitting classes and ethnic groups against each other, an intensely localized struggle by rural people, especially Indians, for the preservation of their communities.

Book Parents

Download or read book Parents written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book City of Industry

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  • Author : Jeff Parriott for the City of Industry
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2022-01-17
  • ISBN : 1467107786
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book City of Industry written by Jeff Parriott for the City of Industry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporated on June 18, 1957, the City of Industry is located 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The city's founding was based on providing a dedicated area for industrial employment in between two major railroad lines. Starting with about 50 businesses, this young municipality grew rapidly and had a national reputation for attracting large manufacturers like Mattel, Inc., Schwinn Bicycle Company, and Libbey, Inc., within its boundaries. The city is known as the "Economic Engine" of the San Gabriel Valley, and currently, it provides 68,000 jobs for the valley's population of 1.7 million people. In the 1970s, the city developed the internationally renowned Industry Hills Resort and Conference Center and the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum. As the last portions of Industry's 12 square miles are being developed, this dynamic economic base is continuing its dedication to businesses and to its neighboring residents by way of charitable giving, public/private partnerships, and innovative community programs.