TY - BOOK AU - Cummings,Scott L. TI - An equal place: lawyers in the struggle for Los Angeles T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780190936839 (ebook) : AV - HD4976.L6 C86 2021 U1 - 331.2979494 23 PY - 2021/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Labor movement KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Working poor KW - Labor policy KW - Labor laws and legislation N1 - Also issued in print: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - In 'An Equal Place', Scott Cummings focuses on the movement for a living wage in Los Angeles and explores greater implications for the role of contemporary lawyers outside of the courtroom. The campaign to implement a living wage in L.A. was the most famous effort in the country, and advocates for it were largely successful, in part because they used the law to advance their agenda UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190215927.001.0001 ER -