Legalizing Street Vending in Los Angeles: Reframing a Movement during the Fourth Wave of Feminism

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052097678
Author(s):  
Sara Bruene ◽  
Moshoula Capous-Desyllas
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Street Vendor ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Frame Alignment ◽  
Fourth Wave ◽  
The City

Street vending was criminalized in the city of Los Angeles since the 1930s. The Los Angeles Street Vendor Campaign (LASVC) utilized several framing tactics over the last several years in order to mobilize participants to decriminalize and legalize the profession of street vending. This article applies frame alignment theory to illustrate how the LASVC reached its goals. This case study utilizes qualitative interviews of key players in the LASVC movement and a content analysis of LASVC’S Facebook page to document their push toward decriminalization over the course of 1 year. The LASVC transformed their narrative from issues of immigration and labor rights and reframed street vending as a women’s justice issue. By doing so, the LASVC extended the boundaries of their frames to incorporate the voices of women of color whose online and on-the-ground efforts to mobilize a larger population manifested during an era of the fourth wave feminism.

A Smart City Remembers Its Past

Crowdsourcing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 489-516
Author(s):  
Jennifer Minner ◽  
Andrea Roberts ◽  
Michael Holleran ◽  
Joshua Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Web Based ◽  
First Case ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
The City

Integral to some conceptualizations of the “smart city” is the adoption of web-based technology to support civic engagement and improve information systems for local government decision support. Yet there is little to no literature on the “smartness” of gathering information about historic places within municipal information systems. This chapter provides three case studies of technologically augmented planning processes that incorporated citizens as sensors of data about historic places. The first case study is of SurveyLA, a massive effort of the city of Los Angeles to comprehensively survey over 880,000 parcels for historic resources. A second case study involves Motor City Mapping, an effort to identify the condition of buildings in Detroit, Michigan and a parallel historical survey conducted by volunteers. In Austin, Texas, a university-based research team designed a municipal web tool called the Austin Historical Survey Wiki. This chapter offers insights into these prior efforts to augment planning processes with “digitized memory,” web-based technology, and public engagement.

Managing Contentious Collective Action

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-129
Author(s):  
Calla Hummel
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Street Vendor ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

Chapter 5 develops an ethnography of street vendors, their organizations, and the city officials who they interact with in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. The chapter is based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the city over four research trips in 2012, 2014 to 2015, 2018, and 2019 as well as administrative data on 31,906 street vending licenses in the city. Fieldwork included interviews, participant observation at dozens of meetings between bureaucrats and organized vendors, ride-alongs with the Municipal Guard, a street vendor survey, working as a street vendor in a clothing market, and selling wedding services with a street vendor cooperative. The theory’s observable implications are illustrated with ethnographic evidence, survey results, and license data from La Paz. I discuss how street vending has changed in the city and how officials have intervened in collective action decisions as the informal sector grew. The chapter demonstrates that officials increased benefits to organized vendors as the costs of regulating markets increased. Additionally, the leaders that take advantage of these offers tend to have more resources than their colleagues, and as the offers increased, so did the level of organization among the city’s street vendors. The chapter also discusses the many trade-offs that officials make in implementing different policies, and how officials manage the often combative organizations that they encourage.

scholarly journals Routine Assessment of Health Impacts of Local Transportation Plans: A Case Study From the City of Los Angeles

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Nicholas ◽  
Irene Vidyanti ◽  
Emily Caesar ◽  
Neil Maizlish
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
The City ◽  
Routine Assessment

scholarly journals An Evaluation of the Living Wage: Identifying Pathways Out of In-Work Poverty

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Swaffield ◽  
Carolyn Snell ◽  
Becky Tunstall ◽  
Jonathan Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Important Determinant ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Living Wage ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City

This article reports the results of a case study on the introduction of the living wage. Three employers in the City of York became living wage employers. Using data derived from a sample survey of their employees and qualitative interviews, this article explores what impact the receipt of the living wage had on poverty and deprivation. It found that not all living wage employees were income poor or deprived, although those on living wage rates were more likely to be poor and deprived than those on even higher wages. The more important determinant of the employees’ living standards was the household they lived in, and there were a high proportion of living wage employees living in multi-unit households. Also important were the number of earners in the household and the hours worked by the living wage employee. Lone parent families and single people appeared to be most vulnerable to poverty and deprivation. In addition, whether the employee took up their entitlement to in-work benefits was critical and, using benefit checks by welfare rights experts, it was found that some were not.

PRIDE and Prejudice: The Economic Impacts of Growth Controls in Pasadena

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 987-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
H W Richardson ◽  
P Gordon ◽  
M-J Jun ◽  
M H Kim
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Output Losses ◽  
The City ◽  
Growth Controls

Whereas most debates about growth controls have focused primarily on the impacts of land and house prices, this study examines anticipated job and output losses. Using the example of the proposed nonresidential and residential controls approved by the voters of Pasadena, California, as a case study, the authors employ a spatial allocation/regional input-output model (the Southern California Planning Model) that allocates highly disaggregated sectoral impacts (direct, indirect, and induced) to 219 zones (cities and unincorporated areas) in the Los Angeles metropolitan region. The largest economic losses are the result of denied nonresidential construction, and these are cumulative over the ten years of the proposed ordinance (now defunct after the 1992 elections). The lowest-skilled occupational groups are the hardest hit in terms of lost jobs, and almost three fifths of the employment losses occur in the city of Pasadena itself. These results offset the favorable claims for growth controls made by their advocates.

scholarly journals Coherence Among Street Vendors Act and City Planning Policies Case Study- Patiala

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Ajay Kaushal
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Trading Activities ◽  
The City ◽  
Planning Policies

The magnitude of informal sector and its contribution to national economy indicates that 92% of total work force of 457 million in India, work in the informal sector. Informal sector contributes 60% to country’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product). This sector shares 98% of the total enterprises in the country. As per 2011 census, Patiala has 4.46 lakh urban population served by 22,000 formal units and 7,000 informal units. Out of these 7,000 informal units, about 2000 informal units fall in walled city. This paper is an attempt to review the coherence among the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 and the City Planning Policies by studying the provisions made by the urban local bodies (ULB) to address the issues of informal sector under this Act and its integration with the city Master Plan before the enactment and after the enactment of the Vendors Act 2014. For better understanding the author has studied the historical evolution of informal trading activities in Patiala, its growth pattern, trend, spatial distribution, socio economic characteristics, space occupied, movement within informal and formal trade and its impacts on traffic, land use and physical environment. Salient features of The Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending Act,2014 have been discussed along with the practical application of the same by Municipal Corporation Patiala and its coherence with the city planning document. 

scholarly journals Indigenous Management Practices- A Case Study on Street Vendors

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Keerthan Raj
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Capital Expenditure ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Street Vendor ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Study Approach

Street vending a very ancient and critical occupation found in each and every country with far reaching economic and social impact. Even before the pre independence era, in India, street vending was by far the only recourse to sales activities in an informal space. Even to this day in smaller semi urban localities and pockets of the country we see a congregation of sellers and buyers getting together in vacant spaces for an informal marketing activity. They are called by various names as in sandy bazaars, santhe’s etc which could happen once a week in most places. Not just food, every possible and essential good and in certain cases services are also bought and sold here. While there is a lot of study on formal sales management, marketing mix, product life cycles stages and a plethora of marketing concept, this street vendors business management have been given very little thought and study. In the absence of a shop, any perceivable brand building exercises, advertisements the street vendor is successful in getting very good returns on the minimal capital expenditure invested. This paper is a case study approach to viewing the successful business practices of street vendors. How do these street vendors manage competition amongst them and still continue to attract a growing numbers of customers. Certain sellers have become brands in themselves for certain unique services they offer and able to sustain their product and service through the years successfully. In this paper, we have discussed certain critical practices of street vendors that could be of much use in furthering management theories and practices.

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