Plaintiffs: Newark Fire Department employee Lomack, along with 33 other Firefighters, the Newark Firefighters Union and the Newark Fire Officers Union. Defendant: City of Newark. The Legal Issue: The legal issue in this case was to determine if the City of Newark transferring employees to other fire houses solely based on race, was constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Equal Protection Clause in the constitution protects civil
The traditional Cuban family structure is patriarchal, a dominant male and a passive female is common, but mainly among older generations of family. The new family is more open to changes, education for all, especially women, was a big step in the participation of women in the workforce, gender equality, respect to marriage, divorce, household responsibilities, and decision-making. Cuban American women with acculturation were ready to join work outside the home and contribute, like men, to the social
The growth of large, booming cities and increasing numbers of innovative ideas and technologies were characteristic of America entering the twentieth century. These cities, such as Detroit and New York City, were centers for industrial progress in which factories were mass producing goods at unprecedented rates. Along with this rapid progress, however, came issues for the wealth of Americans. Not only was the divide between the rich and the poor increasing, but immigrants influxing from Southern
A shock city is the urban place that represents a massive and rapid changes in social, economic, and cultural life (urbanization) due to many factors, including new models of transportation such as railroads, industrialization, and other factors. The first city that was considered the “shock city” was actually Manchester, England. It grew very quickly, and it was the world’s first industrialized city and the home of the cotton industry, cottonopolis - a metropolis centered on cotton trading. Same
after Progressivism drove the country into turmoil. The new society established during the progressive era lacked stability, cultivated a sense of despair, high unemployment rates, shrunk and ultimately crashed the economic system. With urbanization, cities grew in number and size providing jobs to those who moved there, however
still a largely growing population in the urban cities, as around 3.5 million immigrants came to the United States. The increasing immigration into the United States was caused by the Second Industrial Revolution. This new age brought electricity and mechanical
In the late 19th century, physical and economic changes in the cities were made as a result of industrialization. Industrialization is the mechanical process of transitioning from handmade manufacturing to machine production in factories. Cities substituted muscle power with machine power and transformed all aspects of American life. Industrialization was the most important change since settled agriculture. This led to increased production and more goods, growth of businesses, and migration from
Francisco Jewel LEAD PARAGRAPH In a small building on a small block at the bottom of a downhill slope stands the petite boutique, Hotel Bijou. Its Art Deco charm, movie-theme motif and friendly staff put it quaintly out of sorts with the central-city coldness of the Union Square and Tenderloin neighborhoods that it straddles. Lucky for you, this location on-the-cusp-of-seediness keeps the price low even though the location is prime. Two blocks from BART and Muni stations and a 15-minute walk from affluent
by western expansion. Prior to the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1869 there were only three major cities in the west; St. Louis, MO, New Orleans, LA, and Chicago, IL (Westward Expansion 1) This limited the American economy to a finite number of distribution and shipping options. This all changed though with the east and west coasts being connected by rail. While Chicago, IL gets most of the historical credit for being a critical city in the growth westward, the true underdog is Denver
bridge. It has shaped Chattanooga and is a central tourist attraction. When Union troops occupied Chattanooga during the Civil War, the first permanent bridge in Chattanooga was built across the Tennessee River. Construction of the bridge began early in 1864, under the direction of
to the two video shorts we reviewed in class: “Tobacco and Child Workers” and “Uranium Mining in Native Lands.” (Provide your answer in 125-200 words) Organized very differently than today’s cities, both spatially and socially; rural areas are located outside cities or towns and are not as glamourous as the city and are considered small towns. Stereotypes of rural America often misrepresent rural realities. The decline in farming and other rural industries has led to high poverty rates, few opportunities
Detroit is the highest populated city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest city in the state of Michigan. It is the largest in the United States that shares a border with Canada. Detroit was first incorporated as a city in 1815. There were numerous amounts of soldiers that fought from the union who volunteered to fight during the American Civil War. Moving forward into the 19th century, Detroit started to develop and become more prominent during Gilded Age. The Economy was rapidly
In chapter 17, America developed urban industrial society from 1880 to 1890. Since America started to develop industrial revolution after civil war, America’s economy was expended dramatically. This economic expansion stimulated new technological growth and it also created a new group of industrial elites. In developing industrial sectors, especially standard oil industry, which was established by Rockefeller, and electricity, which was made by Thomas Edison were fasted growing sectors. Since many
pathway and its level of ambition for the future. To help cities determine what their sustainability focus should include, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC 2015) proposes three possible lenses through which they can examine themselves: • Basics. At a first level, a city must provide basic services to its citizens and create sufficient infrastructure for its growth - especially health, housing, air quality and public transport. • Differentiators. A city must also identify its differentiating factors or positive
see the changes that deindustrialization and globalization are making to the experience of work and economic safety in cities for the working class. These changes have major effects on many characters in “The Wire”, specifically Lou, Frank, Nick, and Ziggy Sobotka. The Sobotkas are stevedores at the docks in Baltimore, and their experiences embody the key changes that a big city like Baltimore is experiencing, particularly in how a phenomenon like deindustrialization affects the poor and the working
highly populated cities. Frank Sprague designed the first electric streetcar system. Streetcars were an easy way of transportation and were fast, clean, and quiet. The streetcar lines ran from the city center to the outside of the city, creating the suburbs. Other then streetcars, cities built passenger trains on overhead tracks. Subways and overhead railroads helped workers to get to and from their jobs rapidly. Transportation wasn’t the only thing that changed in cities. Cities began to set aside
and during the last century, people tend to move outward the metropolitan areas toward the suburban locales. The decentralization and regional administration system of the United States encourage people to locate in the suburban cities. The population in the central city decreased from 7517 residents per square mile to 2716 in other hand the suburban population increases from 175 residents per square mile to 208 between 1950 and 2000 . (Wheeler, 2006) Many facts encourage people to locate in the
textbook talks about the industrial city in which The Jungle by Upton Sinclair opens the realities factory life and work in the early 1900’s. The Jungle tells about the lives of the workers in factories, specifically meat, and how harsh and disgusting their work really was. The topic of industrial cities and their living and working conditions from the Out of Many textbook is weaved in The Jungle . The Jungle portrays the horrifying struggle of life in highly populated cities and the unsafe factory conditions
The United States was the industrial core of the world during the years of 1875 and 1900. Millions of Americans and foreign immigrants pursued jobs in the city in hopes of better work and wages. The demand for cheap labor was at an all-time high due to large corporations wanting to cut costs wherever they could. They were selfish and did not care that it created horrible working conditions for their laborers. The laborers were often abused and had their wages cut low. Naturally, this angered a lot
book Evicted about spaces of advanced marginality in Milwaukee. Advanced marginality is formed through globalization. This displacement of jobs creates polarization between the lower and upper class (Sassen 14). Those financially stable leave the city, causing economic decline through loss of jobs, social program funding, and institutions. The heterogeneous, jobless poor in these