Re-Examining Economic and Social Polarisation in a Multi-Ethnic Metropolitan Area: The Case of Los Angeles

The thesis that industrial restructuring has generated increasingly socially and economically polarised large cities is re-examined in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles metropolitan area is both ethnically diverse and at the centre of the arguments about industrial change and restructuring. The evidence...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Area (London 1969) 1996-03, Vol.28 (1), p.56-63
Main Authors: Clark, W. A. V., McNicholas, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
California
Cities
Empirical evidence
Ethnicity
Hispanics
Income
Income distribution
Los Angeles
Metropolitan areas
Middle income
Occupations
Race
Skilled labor
Social stratification
U.S.A
Unskilled labor
Urban areas
Urban geography
White people
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The thesis that industrial restructuring has generated increasingly socially and economically polarised large cities is re-examined in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles metropolitan area is both ethnically diverse and at the centre of the arguments about industrial change and restructuring. The evidence for polarisation is at best mixed. There is some evidence of an income squeeze and of a growing professional class and concomitantly, a decrease in the proportion of skilled and unskilled occupations. However, it is far from polarisation especially when race and ethnicity are taken into account.
ISSN:0004-0894
1475-4762