Edna Bonacich
Biographic Data
| ID | 144279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edna Bonacich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edna |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonacich |
| SIGNATURE | BONACICH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1527 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982
Labor Immigration under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II
Working with the Labor Movement: A Personal Journey in Organic Public Sociology
In this chapter, the author discusses her own journeys in public sociology. She examines five aspects: what brought her to this approach, what the author have tried to do in terms of research, some of her efforts to teach public sociology, some of the difficulties one confronts, and why she think it contributes to the discipline. With the emergence of public sociology, the author feels a new freedom to show herself fearlessly. She considers the n…
Confronting Racism, Capitalism, and Ecological Degradation: Urban Farming and the Struggle for Social Justice in Black Los Angeles
This article examines the role of capitalism in the ecological crisis and the jobs crisis facing the Los Angeles African American community. We argue that sectors of Black Americans, like many people in the Global South, are being pushed out of the formal system of capitalist employment. To address this, we look to delinking and the development of economic experiments rooted in community economic self-determination based on anti-capitalist values…
Marxism, Racism, and Exclusion: Introduction to Issue 2
Class and Race Under Neoliberal Globalization: Whither (or Wither) the Labor Movement
The Racialization of Global Labor
Drawing on both historical and contemporary examples, the authors argue that today's global capitalist system is maintained and structured within a global system of White supremacy. Groups of workers are located within a hierarchically organized, racialized labor system that differentially exploits workers based upon their racialized and gendered location. Dominant racialized labor groups (mainly White/European workers) are in general afforded mo…
Summing Up, Moving Forward
Breaking With the System a Response to Stephen Lerner
Organizing Wal-Mart's Logistics Workers
Labor and the Television Industry
Television writers face increased product integration by advertisers in their shows, and of intensified media conglomeration hence concentration of power. This essay examines the challenges these changes raise for the Writers’ Guild. Rather than accepting, for purposes of survival, the social decline these developments represent, I suggest that unions strive to find the difficult path that combines larger community interests with labor interests
Working with the labor movement: A personal journey in organic public sociology
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry
In a study crucial to our understanding of American social inequality, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare state and its strong unions and the rise in global and flexible production. Apparel manufacturers now have the incentive to move production to wherever …
"Comments on "Class Approaches to Ethnicity and Race
Organizing Immigrant Workers in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry
The apparel industry in the United States is declining. Every month new reports are put out enumerating the loss of jobs. Meanwhile, parallel numbers report the monthly rise of imports. However, even though apparel jobs are moving offshore, U.S.-based manufacturers and retailers still play a critical role in the production of apparel for the U.S. market. They have become multinational corporations. They now arrange for the production of their clo…
Latino Immigrant Workers in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry
The apparel industry is one of the most globalized industries in the world. Apparel manufacturers are moving production to areas of the world where they can obtain the lowest wage labor. Imports of clothing to the US have risen dramatically, while garment jobs have dwindled. Los Angeles is the one area of the country that is running counter to this trend, in part because of its access to a large, Latino workforce, many of whom are undocumented. T…
Reflections on Union Activism
The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring
Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers
Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots
Society in Transition: The Challenge of Diversity in an Era of Scientific and Technological Revolution
The other day I was talking with a graduate student in history at UCLA. She described a labor historian in her department as an “old neo-Marxist” because he was still working in the tradition of E.P. Thompson, still clinging to the sixties. Meanwhile, she has moved on to post-modernism, and sees these ideas as outdated. I thought, if he is an old neo-Marxist, what does that make me? I never fully cottoned on to the winds of change brought about b…
The Assault on California's Latino Immigrants: The Politics of Proposition 187
Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California.Tomas Almaguer
The New Asian immigration in Los Angeles and global restructuring
A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market
A Theory of Middleman Minorities
Investigates the minorities, a term coined by Blalock. Included in this classification are Jews in Europe, the Chinese in Southeast Asia, and Greeks in the United States. Previous works on this topic have explored the hostile reaction of communities to these ethnic groups, which leads these middlemen to strengthen group solidarity. These works have also considered the nature of societies in which middleman groups can be found. The theory presente…
Advanced Capitalism and Black/White Race Relations in the United States: A Split Labor Market Interpretation
A distinguishing feature of the black position in advanced capitalism lies in relatively high unemployment and underemployment, a phenomenon that emerged in the 1930s and became firmly entrenched in the mid-1950s. To explain this we examined the black/white split labor market between World War I and the New Deal, showing how blacks were used to undermine white workers and their unions. The conflict was resolved with New Deal Labor legislation, pr…
Class Approaches to Ethnicity and Race
Предлагается дополнить традиционный подход к изучению расовой стратификации на основе аскриптивных (примордиальных) характеристик человека, рассмотрением данного неравенства с точки зрения его обусловленности классовыми отношениями. Это позволит, по мнению автора, не только глубже понять исследуемую реальность, но и разработать инструментарий к ее изменению. Описываются преимущества классового анализа при изучении этносоциальной и расовой стратиф…
Abolition, the Extension of Slavery, and the Position of Free Blacks: A Study of Split Labor Markets in the United States, 1830-1863
Using the "split labor market" theory of ethnic and racial antagonism, this paper analyzes race relations in the pre-Civil War United States. Both slavs and free blacks are found to have been lower preced sources of labor than whites, to whom they therefore posed a threat of displacement. Slavery was a system which gave souther capitalists total control of a cheap labor force, permitting extensive displacement. It also put the South in conflict w…
Koreans in business
The Racialization of Global Labor
Drawing on both historical and contemporary examples, the authors argue that today's global capitalist system is maintained and structured within a global system of White supremacy. Groups of workers are located within a hierarchically organized, racialized labor system that differentially exploits workers based upon their racialized and gendered location. Dominant racialized labor groups (mainly White/European workers) are in general afforded mo…
Making it' in America: A Social Evaluation of the Ethics of Immigrant Entrepreneurship
This article takes the concept of 'making it' in America as the central thrust behind immigrant entrepreneurship. The social values behind 'making it' are dissected, and closely linked to the capitalist ethic of utilitarianism. Immigrant entrepreneurs are found to play the part of both oppressed and oppressors. They are tools of large corporations, their hard work used by the corporations to make money. On the other hand, the immigrants also oppr…
The Other Side of Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A Dialogue with Waldinger, Aldrich, Ward and Associates
Working with the labor movement: A personal journey in organic public sociology
Small Business and Japanese American Ethnic Solidarity
An important issue in the field of ethnic relations is the relationship between class and ethnicity or race. Is ethnicity a phenomenon that cross-cuts cIass divisions in a society and is independent of them? Is there a special bond, a primordial kinship-like tie, which leads people of putative common ancestry to join together in a shared Sense of peoplehood? Or is ethnicity really a disguised form of class (in the Marxist sense of economic intere…
The Assault on California's Latino Immigrants: The Politics of Proposition 187
Confronting Racism, Capitalism, and Ecological Degradation: Urban Farming and the Struggle for Social Justice in Black Los Angeles
This article examines the role of capitalism in the ecological crisis and the jobs crisis facing the Los Angeles African American community. We argue that sectors of Black Americans, like many people in the Global South, are being pushed out of the formal system of capitalist employment. To address this, we look to delinking and the development of economic experiments rooted in community economic self-determination based on anti-capitalist values…
Guest editor’s introduction: Participatory research, Part II
Inequality in America: The failure of the American system for people of color
This paper places racial inequality in the U.S. in the context of overol inequality. Not only is income maldistributed, but more importantly, productive property is highly concentrated in the hands of a few owners. Inequality of both income and property is even more severe for people of color. The paper contends that American capitalism is committed to inequality because the wealth of property owners depends upon impoverishment. Racial inequality…
The Limited Social Philosophy of Affirmative Action
The Social Costs of Immigrant Entrepreneurship
(1988). The Social Costs of Immigrant Entrepreneurship. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 119-128
Still Another Look at Black/White Unemployment: Reply to Oehler
Class and Race Under Neoliberal Globalization: Whither (or Wither) the Labor Movement
Summing Up, Moving Forward
Labor and the Television Industry
Television writers face increased product integration by advertisers in their shows, and of intensified media conglomeration hence concentration of power. This essay examines the challenges these changes raise for the Writers’ Guild. Rather than accepting, for purposes of survival, the social decline these developments represent, I suggest that unions strive to find the difficult path that combines larger community interests with labor interests
Organizing Immigrant Workers in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry
The apparel industry in the United States is declining. Every month new reports are put out enumerating the loss of jobs. Meanwhile, parallel numbers report the monthly rise of imports. However, even though apparel jobs are moving offshore, U.S.-based manufacturers and retailers still play a critical role in the production of apparel for the U.S. market. They have become multinational corporations. They now arrange for the production of their clo…
Global production: The apparel industry in the Pacific Rim
The Role of the Petite Bourgeoisie within Capitalism: A Response to Pyong Gap Min
The Capitalist World-System and the Making of the American Working Class
A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market
A Theory of Middleman Minorities
Investigates the minorities, a term coined by Blalock. Included in this classification are Jews in Europe, the Chinese in Southeast Asia, and Greeks in the United States. Previous works on this topic have explored the hostile reaction of communities to these ethnic groups, which leads these middlemen to strengthen group solidarity. These works have also considered the nature of societies in which middleman groups can be found. The theory presente…
American Pluralism: A Study of Minority Groups and Social Theory
Passing for White: A Study of Racial Assimilation in a South African School. By Graham Watson and the South African Voter: Some Aspects of Voting Behaviour, With Special Reference to the General Elect…
PASSING FOR WHITE: A STUDY OF RACIAL ASSIMILATION IN A SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOL. By Graham Watson and THE SOUTH AFRICAN VOTER: SOME ASPECTS OF VOTING BEHAVIOUR, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE GENERAL ELECTIONS OF 1966 and 1970. By H. Lever Get access Edna Bonacich Edna Bonacich University of California, Riverside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 53, Issue 1, September 1974, Pages 148–149, h…
Reply to Comment by Stryker
Passing for White: A Study of Racial Assimilation in a South African School
Deadlock in School Desegregation: A Case Study of Inglewood, California
Urban Ethnicity
Small Business and Japanese American Ethnic Solidarity
An important issue in the field of ethnic relations is the relationship between class and ethnicity or race. Is ethnicity a phenomenon that cross-cuts cIass divisions in a society and is independent of them? Is there a special bond, a primordial kinship-like tie, which leads people of putative common ancestry to join together in a shared Sense of peoplehood? Or is ethnicity really a disguised form of class (in the Marxist sense of economic intere…
Abolition, the Extension of Slavery, and the Position of Free Blacks: A Study of Split Labor Markets in the United States, 1830-1863
Using the "split labor market" theory of ethnic and racial antagonism, this paper analyzes race relations in the pre-Civil War United States. Both slavs and free blacks are found to have been lower preced sources of labor than whites, to whom they therefore posed a threat of displacement. Slavery was a system which gave souther capitalists total control of a cheap labor force, permitting extensive displacement. It also put the South in conflict w…
Ethnicity in the United States: A Preliminary Reconnaissance
Advanced Capitalism and Black/White Race Relations in the United States: A Split Labor Market Interpretation
A distinguishing feature of the black position in advanced capitalism lies in relatively high unemployment and underemployment, a phenomenon that emerged in the 1930s and became firmly entrenched in the mid-1950s. To explain this we examined the black/white split labor market between World War I and the New Deal, showing how blacks were used to undermine white workers and their unions. The conflict was resolved with New Deal Labor legislation, pr…
Koreans in business
Still Another Look at Black/White Unemployment: Reply to Oehler
The Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity: Small Business in the Japanese American Community
Bonacich and Modell explore class and ethnic behavior as reflected in the history of Japanese Americans in the Unites States. They demonstrate that involvement in certain types of self-consciously ethnic business structures supports the development and maintenance of Japanese American ethnic solidarity. The authors question the idea of ethnicity as a natural or primordial bond; they accept that ethnicity reflects social and political decisions; e…
Class Approaches to Ethnicity and Race
Предлагается дополнить традиционный подход к изучению расовой стратификации на основе аскриптивных (примордиальных) характеристик человека, рассмотрением данного неравенства с точки зрения его обусловленности классовыми отношениями. Это позволит, по мнению автора, не только глубже понять исследуемую реальность, но и разработать инструментарий к ее изменению. Описываются преимущества классового анализа при изучении этносоциальной и расовой стратиф…
Racial Inequality: A Political-Economic Analysis
Issei, Nisei, and Sansei: Three Generations of Japanese Americans
The Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity: Small Business in the Japanese American Community
Journal Article The Economic Basis of Ethnic Sohdarity: Small Business in the Japanese American Community. By Edna Bonacich and John Modell. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. x + 290 pp. Tables, appendixes, references, and index. $18.95.) Get access Roger Daniels Roger Daniels University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 4, March 1982…
The Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity
Japanese Americans: Changing Patterns of Ethnic Affiliation over Three Generations
Labor Immigration: Asian Workers in the United States before World War II
The Capitalist World-System and the Making of the American Working Class
Learning From the British Experience: A Comment On Emily Abel
The Limited Social Philosophy of Affirmative Action
Political science (49 works) · Sociology (48 works) · Law (31 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (24 works) · Economics (23 works) · Law (21 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Politics (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Ethnic group (14 works)