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Sunshine and the Open Shop: Ford and Darwin in 1920s Los Angeles
Author(s) -
Davis Mike
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8330.00052
Subject(s) - factory (object oriented programming) , downtown , darwin (adl) , capital (architecture) , investment (military) , economic history , plan (archaeology) , political science , history , politics , engineering , law , ancient history , archaeology , systems engineering , computer science , programming language
By 1910, Los Angeles was already notorious as national capital of the open shop. During World War I, the Chamber of Commerce launched an ambitious campaign to attract eastern investment to new manufacturing districts southeast of downtown. With the arrival of hundreds of branch plants in the 1920s, Los Angeles' business leaders—quoting Ford and vulgarizing Darwin—embraced a sweeping vision of Urban Eugenics based on scientific factory planning, proprietary industrial suburbs, mass‐produced bungalows, and a racially selected workforce. Even Mother Nature was a scab.