Inland shift : race, space, and capital in Southern California / Juan D. De Lara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lara, Juan D. De, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--California--Inland Empire (Pacific Northwest).

Labor movement.

Race discrimination--California--Inland Empire (Pacific Northwest).

Race discrimination.

Regional economics--California--Inland Empire (Pacific Northwest).

Regional economics.

Inland Empire (Calif.)--Economic conditions.

Inland Empire (Calif.).

Inland Empire (Calif.)--Politics and government.

Inland Empire (Calif.)--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The subprime crash of 2008 revealed a fragile, unjust, and unsustainable economy built on retail consumption, low-wage jobs, and fictitious capital. Economic crisis, finance capital, and global commodity chains transformed Southern California just as Latinxs and immigrants were turning California into a majority-nonwhite state. In Inland Shift, Juan D. De Lara uses the growth of Southern California's logistics economy, which controls the movement of goods, to examine how modern capitalism was shaped by and helped to transform the region's geographies of race and class. While logistics provided a roadmap for capital and the state to transform Southern California, it also created pockets of resistance among labor, community, and environmental groups who argued that commodity distribution exposed them to economic and environmental precarity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Scene 1. A Space for Logistics

1. Space, Power, and Method

2. Global Goods and the Infrastructure of Desire

3. The Spatial Politics of Southern California's Logistics Regime

Scene 2. Precarious Labor

4. The Circuits of Capital

5. Cyborg Labor in the Global Logistics Matrix

6. Contesting Contingency

Scene 3. The Reterritorialization of Race and Class

7. Mapping the American Dream

8. Land, Capital, and Race

9. Latinx Frontiers

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9780520964181

0520964187

OCLC:

1008758827