PP&D 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Living Wage, Neoliberalism

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Planning, Policy, and Design
• Course: PP&D 4
• Professor: Walter Nicholls

Document Summary

The city and social movements: rights through the city. La: 1990s place of social injustice: xenophobia was at its height. 2000s becomes model for social justice movement: minimum wage, transit equity, housing, race, working class people demanding rights as workers, minorities, and immigrants, police reform. From government containment to empowerment: urban radicalism in late 1960s and early 1970s, federal money (carrots and sticks) used to control local radical resistances sticks = repression. Massive decline in federal money to cities and the neoliberal revolution old activists decline because loss of funding new activist clusters: new immigrant radicals, union, intellectuals. Figueroa corridor, etc. ) drew from participation of immigrant and intellectual communities bottom up power: justice insurgents control politicians not politicians controlling insurgents: 2000s: l. a. hub of national social justice movement. Institutionalizing ties: labor, immigrant rights, and intellectual networks. Ucla labor center: ucla faculty county federation of labor. This model starts replicating itself in immigrant neighborhoods in.