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Land of Fair Promise Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1885-1941
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Land of Fair Promise
Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1885-1941
Judith Rosenberg Raftery
This book uses a case study of education and educational reform in Los Angeles as a lens for viewing a wide range of political and cultural questions involved in urban development in the American West, notable the manner and motives of those who changes school policy.
Rapid population growth after 1885 and the recognition that large numbers of school children were either non-white or non-English-speaking compelled Western Progressives to reestablish order and end corrupt schoolboard practices. Drawing on the ideas of Jane Addams and John Dewey, reformers made the Los Angeles school system an instance of apparently effective reform, not only in educational terms, but also administratively and in the broad range of social services provided under school direction -- penny-lunch programs, after-hour playgrounds, day-care centers, adult classes, and home classes for shut-in mothers. But these achievements bore increasingly equivocal results as industrialization, immigration, and urbanization contributed to immense social and economic problems, and reformers intensified programs to Americanize immigrant children. More complicated and divisive progressive politics vied increasingly with professionalization and grassroots pressure from immigrant groups to determine education policy.
Many of the leading Los Angeles reformers were women, newly empowered by suffrage, who expanded their campaigns for social change. Also, since women composed most of the teaching force, they began to see themselves as professional educators. But professionalization proved to be a double-edged sword. Better trained than their predecessors, women nevertheless had to fight to hold on to their status as the school system became more efficient, more structured, and more impersonal. Professionalization also led to clashes between professionals; psychologists introduced IQ measurement, and many classroom teachers found mental testing unreliable and sought alternate methods to evaluate the abilities of children.
Reformers, educators, and ethnic organizations worked assiduously to modify the social behavior of the now-diverse school population. Despite differences, these groups together built a new social fabric, a patchwork shaped by the unrelenting realities of twentieth-century America. the book is illustrated with 14 photographs.
Judith Rosenberg Raftery is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Chico.
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Title Land of fair promise: politics and reform in Los Angeles schools, 1885-1941
Author Judith Rosenberg Raftery
Edition illustrated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1992
ISBN 0804719306, 9780804719308
Length 284 pages
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Recent Occupational Trends in American Labor
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Designed as a supplement to bring up to date their much-consulted work Occupational Trends in the United States, the present small volume by the same two authors is a fact paced and significant study. It explores employment trends of the years 1930 through 1944 as revealed by the 1940 census and other statistical sources.
Presenting first and overall characterization of the labor force of 1940 and a contrast with the 1930 employment scene, the authors succinctly summarize the effect of a major depression on more than 200 occupational groups. They also undertake a valuable consideration of employment during the early war years.
The future prospects for workers and the possibilities of full employment are weighed and postwar occupational movements are predicted in one timely chapter.
Competent and compact, Anderson and Davidson's new work is not only a necessary handbook to tie in closely with their earlier publication, but a much-needed, practical reference study of employment during the nation's dramatic years of depression and war.
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Recent occupational trends in American labor: a supplement...
Hobson Dewey Anderson, Percy Erwin Davidson
Stanford University Press, 1945
133 pages
The Economy of British Central Africa
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In 1953 the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland embarked on a challenger experiment in social relations, committing itself to pursuing a policy of "inter-racial partnership" among the area's multi-racial population. The ultimate success or failure of this policy, which may have a profound effect on the course of events throughout Africa, is closely linked with the economic performance of these territories.
Like many other underdeveloped areas, the Federation encompasses two distinct forms of economic organization. One form, the Western money economy introduced with European trade and settlement, can be measured and analyzed in terms of the conventional concepts of aggregative economics. The other form, the indigenous economy, is based largely on traditional agriculture and cannot easily be assessed by conventional methods. By examining the interaction of the two economies, the author has attempted to fill a serious gap in our economic knowledge.
Since the functioning of the Central African economic system cannot be fully understood apart from its non-economic context, the author considers certain political and social issues that have had a forceful impact on the Federation's economic life.
Mr. Barber is Associate Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University.
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The Economy of British Central Africa
William J. Barber
Published by Stanford University Press, 1961
271 pages
Scarcity and Survival in Central America : Ecological Origins of the Soccer War
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“The great importance if Durham’s book lies precisely in its solid, data-based documentation of the fallaciousness of the argument that population density always explains resource scarcity.” American Anthropologist
In both the academic literature and the popular press, the so-called Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 is cited as a classic illustration of the problems of overpopulation. The conflict has been called the “demographic war” and a veritable “population explosion.” It has even been argues that the Soccer War represents in microcosm what may be in store for a world whose human population continues to increase at a rapid rate.
Despite the importance attached to the conflict as an example of population pressure, there has been no systematic attempt to evaluate the underlying assumptions of the explanation. The massive emigration of Salvadoreans to Honduras, for example, is widely conceded to have precipitated the war, but no one has demonstrated that this emigration was wholly or even chiefly a response to population pressure. Similarly, although it has been argued that the stream of Salvadoreans added significantly to Honduras’s own population problems, few authors have actually assessed the impact of the immigrants at the local or national level. An evaluation of these assumptions is the goal of this study.
Durham’s analysis is perhaps best described as a case study in human ecology – broadly defined as the study of the patterns and processes of human adaptation to environments. Because the patterns and processes of human adaptation in this world are not cleanly compartmentalized, studies in human ecology are legitimately approached from any number of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, population biology sociology, and demography. This study is no exception.
Introduction 1
Honduras , El Salvador , Soccer War
The Causes of Resource Scarcity in El Salvador 21
hectares , maize , E. A. Wilson
Scarcity and Survival in Tenancingo 63
Tenancingo , hectares , F-statistic
The Question of Resource Abundance in Honduras 102
Choluteca , square kilometers , maize
Scarcity Survival and Salvadoreans in Langue 127
sharecropped , Nacaome , Pan-American Highway
Conclusion 159
