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The servicing of America: Political economy and service work in postwar Southern California.

机译：为美国服务：战后南加州的政治经济和服务工作。

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This dissertation charts and analyzes the history of low-wage service work in the postwar United States, focusing on Southern California. In so doing, it contributes to a variety of subjects in postwar American historiography, ranging from labor history, to the history of gender and the family, to immigration, to urban redevelopment. I argue that in the decades following World War II, capital investment strategies, industrial and agricultural automation, residential dispersal, changes in the social organization of the family, and state urban redevelopment, labor, and immigration policy combined to produce the most profound transformation in how Americans worked since industrialization. The result was an explosion in low-wage jobs in hospitality, janitorial, and health care industries, jobs in which Americans no longer produced tangible commodities. This shift in how people worked rippled through American life. It undermined the political and cultural power of organized labor and diminished class as a dominant category in American politics and society. It provided the social and economic backdrop for both California and national political debate surrounding undocumented immigration after 1965. As this shift was characterized by a rapid integration of women into the workforce, it profoundly transformed the economic and social relationships of America's households. Several key features of postwar American society come into sharper focus as a result of my approach, including the commodification of household labor previously viewed as outside the purview of the market, the politics of privatization, the evolving linkage between specific types of service work and racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities, the political economy of urban redevelopment, and the explosion of undocumented immigration as a key issue in national politics. This project aims to show the contingent forces that gave rise to the American service economy while specifying how the rise of an economy dominated by the distribution of services rather than industrial production affected both politics and the daily lives of individuals and families across the Los Angeles metropolitan area.;In order to analyze these changes, the project uses a variety of distinct archives and primary sources collections. Key collections include the papers of labor unions like the Service Employees International Union, federal records of agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board and the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department, the manuscript collections of politicians such as former California Governor Ronald Reagan and Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, urban redevelopment collections relating to Bunker Hill, and a variety of other primary sources. The disparate nature of such archives is necessary to chart the largely untold social and cultural history of a large group of workers, who, this project argues, were largely rendered invisible in their work and lives and thus show up infrequently in the historical record.
机译：本论文以战后美国为中心，对南加州的低薪服务工作进行了历史记录和分析。这样，它有助于战后美国史学中的各个学科，从劳动史，性别和家庭史，移民，城市重建等各个方面。我认为，在第二次世界大战之后的几十年中，资本投资策略，工农业自动化，住宅分散，家庭社会组织的变化以及国家的城市再开发，劳动力和移民政策共同产生了最深刻的变革。工业化以来美国人的工作方式。结果是招待，清洁和医疗保健行业的低薪工作激增，而美国人不再生产有形商品。人们工作方式的这种转变在整个美国生活中引起了连锁反应。它削弱了有组织劳动的政治和文化力量，使阶级成为美国政治和社会中的主导阶级而减少了。 1965年后，它为加州和围绕无证移民的全国政治辩论提供了社会和经济背景。由于这种转变的特征是妇女迅速融入劳动力队伍，从而深刻地改变了美国家庭的经济和社会关系。由于采取了这种方法，战后美国社会的几个关键特征变得更加突出，包括以前被视为不在市场范围内的家庭劳动力的商品化，私有化的政治，特定类型的服务工作与种族之间不断发展的联系。 ，种族，性别和性身份，城市重建的政治经济学以及无证件移民的激增成为国家政治中的关键问题。该项目旨在展示产生美国服务经济的特遣部队，同时详细说明以服务业而非工业生产为主的经济增长如何影响整个洛杉矶都会的政治以及个人和家庭的日常生活为了分析这些变化，该项目使用了各种不同的档案和原始资源集合。重要的藏书包括工会的文件，如国际服务雇员工会，国家劳资关系委员会和劳工部的工资与时薪部门等机构的联邦记录，前加利福尼亚州州长罗纳德·里根和前政治家的手稿藏书。洛杉矶县主管肯尼斯·哈恩（Kenneth Hahn），与邦克山（Bunker Hill）相关的城市重建收藏以及其他各种主要来源。这些档案的不同性质对于绘制一大批工人的巨大的社会和文化历史是必要的，该项目认为，这些工人在工作和生活中基本上是看不见的，因此在历史记录中很少出现。

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  • 作者

    Adams, Thomas Jessen.;

  • 作者单位

    The University of Chicago.;

  • 授予单位 The University of Chicago.;
  • 学科 History United States.;Sociology Industrial and Labor Relations.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 245 p.
  • 总页数 245
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 美洲史;社会学;
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