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Photography
Nightshift
PHOTOS: Los Angeles at Night
Post date:There is a tranquility that radiates throughout the city after-hours that can be both beautiful and lonely. Places that are normally bustling with people stand uninhabited, creating a surreal landscape that most never see.
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globalization
Nightshift
Katheryn: UPS Manager
Post date:Katheryn’s job is to help the world’s packages get to their destinations on time as a night supervisor for the UPS processing center at the Ontario airport.
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workers rights
Nightshift
Veronica: Custodian
Post date:A night custodian at one of L.A.’s downtown skyscrapers, Veronica is one of the many anonymous faces that clean up office cubicles once the daytime shift ends for the rest of us. Veronica finds peace and quiet at night, but also, at times, danger.
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Labor
Nightshift
Vincent: Construction Superintendent
Post date:Vincent’s life is a bit upside down thanks to his job on the night shift. As the sun sets over the city, Vincent arrives to work as a construction supervisor at the site of the future Los Angeles Rams Stadium.
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baking
Nightshift
Harriet: Baker
Post date:A baker at Bub and Grandma’s, Harriet’s starts her day at 3 a.m. with a solitary run to clear her mind. At the bakery, she works alongside others, and while it’s hectic, she enjoys the communal nature of the work.
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economics
Nightshift
Nightshift Extended Preview
Post date:As the world becomes more global, the night shift is becoming more and more common. Meet five Angelenos working as the world around them sleeps:
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10 Questions
10 Questions: What is Work?
Post date: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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Labor
Democracy Now!
California and New York Approve $15 Minimum Wage Hike
Post date:Advocates are calling it one of the largest pay raises for American workers in the history of the country.
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Departures
Departures
Families Precariously Make a Living from Street Vending, City Remains Ambivalent
Post date: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.
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Departures
Departures
Young Workers, Low-Wage Workers: UCLA Study Finds that Millennials are Among the Lowest Paid in LA County
Post date:A UCLA Labor Center study finds that young workers are an important part of the Los Angeles labor force yet also make up a disproportionately large part of low-wage earners.
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intersections
History & Society
The Women's Land Army "Farmettes" for Suffrage During World War I
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CA Matters
California Matters with Mark Bittman
Looking Behind the Kitchen Door
Post date:The restaurant industry is the second largest sector in the economy with more than 11 million workers, yet these individuals are the lowest paid in the country -- the federal minimum wage is still $2.13 an hour for tipped workers.
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Where We Are
History & Society
Re-Reading LA: 'Billion Dollar Blackjack' from 1954
Post date:The reason for the "otherness" of Los Angeles has been named differently in different seasons, but all the interpreters of our re-read city have actually been trying to identify its original sin.
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farm workers
Food
Farm Worker Conditions In Mexico Are Not Much Worse Than In The U.S.
Post date:The terrible worker conditions on Mexican farms are getting a lot of attention lately. But it's not much better for agricultural workers in the United States.
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economy
SoCal Focus
Joblessness is No Longer 'Urgent,' But it's Still News
Post date:Employment is still sluggish, with no improvement in sight. I know you aren't what you do, but the joblessness is getting awfully personal.
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lost landmarks
History & Society
Infernal Machines: The Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and L.A.'s First 'Crime of the Century'
Post date:Not much is left on the northeast corner of First and Broadway where a series of blasts shook downtown Los Angeles to its foundations, dramatically capping off decades of class warfare and labor struggle.
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water
SoCal Focus
Insuring Against Corruption in the Central Basin Water District
Post date:You can't buy insurance against the chaos in phantom governments like the Central Basin Municipal Water District.
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ports
SoCal Focus
Choppy Waters: Competition, Environmental Impacts Trouble L.A.'s Harbors
Post date:Currently, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach handle about 40 percent of the nation's entire containerized trade from Asia but competition is rising quickly.
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socal spirits
Food
One Winery's Labor Solution: Year-Round Employment And Their Own Blend
Post date:How one Santa Barbara winery is changing the way agricultural labor is perceived and rewarded.
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san diego county
Artbound
From Mexican to American: Louis Hock's Decades of Documenting Immigrant Life
Post date:Louis Hock documented the experiences of his Los Analos neighbors.