Power from the Past

Memory Work Research Initiative

Report: Los Angeles Should Work for Everyone

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Yellow cover of a bound study. The title reads "From the Basement to the Boardroom... Los Angeles Should Work for Everyone" and sits above a large image of the downtown LA skyline. The quote below reads "Los Angeles Cannot Permanently Exist as Two Cities... One Amazingly Prosperous, The Other Increasingly Poorer in Substance and Hope" and is attributed to Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles.

This 1989 study of building service work written by Paul Schimek and published by SEIU Local 399 is an example of the union’s use of research to influence the public debate on equitable development in Los Angeles. Original available J4J available in the SEIU-USWW records (Collection 1940), UCLA Library Special Collections.