Equal Place - Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles

In An Equal Place, Scott Cummings focuses on the movement for a living wage in Los Angeles and explores greater implications for the role of contemporary lawyers outside of the courtroom. The campaign to implement a living wage in L.A. was the most famous effort in the country, and advocates for it were largely successful, in part because they used the law to advance their agenda.

List of contents

• 1. From Riots to Recession: The Challenge to Low-Wage Work in Los Angeles


• 2. Garment Workers: Fighting to End Sweatshops


• 3. Day Laborers: Organizing the Corner


• 4. Retail Workers: Negotiating Community Benefits


• 5. Grocery Workers: Blocking the Big-Box Invasion


• 6. Truck Drivers: Challenging Misclassification


• 7. An Equal Place? Empirical Appraisal and Theoretical Implications

About the author

Scott L. Cummings is the Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics and Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. He is faculty director of the Program on Legal Ethics and the Profession (LEAP), and a longtime member of the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.

Summary

In An Equal Place, Scott Cummings focuses on the movement for a living wage in Los Angeles and explores greater implications for the role of contemporary lawyers outside of the courtroom. The campaign to implement a living wage in L.A. was the most famous effort in the country, and advocates for it were largely successful, in part because they used the law to advance their agenda.

Additional text

A landmark study of the contemporary labor movement in Los Angeles. Cummings reveals how tenacious organizing and innovative policy making from the bottom up, supported by savvy lawyering, can transform low-wage work and create the path to prosperity for all. It is a testament to courage and a call to further action.

Product details

• Authors: Scott L. Cummings, Scott L. (Professor of Law Cummings, Cummings Scott L.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2021
• EAN: 9780190215927
• ISBN: 978-0-19-021592-7
• No. of pages: 688
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Labor & Employment, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social discrimination & inequality, Migration, immigration and emigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Employment & Labour Law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Employment and labour law: general, Social discrimination and social justice