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Exploring the Inland Empire

Exploring the Inland Empire By Nicholas Allen e xplroinG The i nland e mpire Life, Work, and Injustice in Southern California’s Retail Fortress On a clear day, flying into Los Angeles from the East, if you glance down about twenty minutes before landing, the desert and mountains give way to the beginnings of the massive sprawl that stretches inland from the L.A. basin. Under a cloud of smog, curly subdivisions spread as far as the eye can see, ringed by mountains. Then a proliferation of large white squares and rectangles, clus- tered together at the intersections of three The Gal lbo Sy uppl Cainh major freeways. The outsized checkerboard he workers who sort the you are looking down upon is the heart of the goods in the warehouses of the Inland Inland Empire, the largest concentration of TEmpire—over one hundred thousand warehouses and distribution centers on the people in roughly three hundred buildings—are planet. In these giant buildings, most of them part of a vast supply chain that starts in one million square feet—seventeen football Southeast Asia and extends to every town in fields laid end-to-end—an army of low-wage America. Almost half of the goods we import— workers sort and package a huge http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Exploring the Inland Empire

New Labor Forum , Volume 19 (2): 7 – Jun 1, 2010

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SAGE
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© 2010 Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY
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1095-7960
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1557-2978
DOI
10.4179/NLF.192.0000006
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By Nicholas Allen e xplroinG The i nland e mpire Life, Work, and Injustice in Southern California’s Retail Fortress On a clear day, flying into Los Angeles from the East, if you glance down about twenty minutes before landing, the desert and mountains give way to the beginnings of the massive sprawl that stretches inland from the L.A. basin. Under a cloud of smog, curly subdivisions spread as far as the eye can see, ringed by mountains. Then a proliferation of large white squares and rectangles, clus- tered together at the intersections of three The Gal lbo Sy uppl Cainh major freeways. The outsized checkerboard he workers who sort the you are looking down upon is the heart of the goods in the warehouses of the Inland Inland Empire, the largest concentration of TEmpire—over one hundred thousand warehouses and distribution centers on the people in roughly three hundred buildings—are planet. In these giant buildings, most of them part of a vast supply chain that starts in one million square feet—seventeen football Southeast Asia and extends to every town in fields laid end-to-end—an army of low-wage America. Almost half of the goods we import— workers sort and package a huge

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Published: Jun 1, 2010

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