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    Review: Unions keep watch on corporations — Steven Greenhouse digs into labor's battle

    by Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times Aug 07, 2019 4 minutes

    "Beaten Down, Worked Up" by Steven Greenhouse; Knopf (416 pages, $27.95)

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    In the early 1990s, Los Angeles faced a turning point. Many of the aerospace and manufacturing jobs that had boomed during and after World War II, feeding a large, prosperous middle class, had evaporated.

    Low-wage service jobs - dishwashers, janitors, home-care aides, hotel housekeepers - were exploding, often filled by African Americans and immigrants from Mexico and Central America.

    In the wake of the fiery 1992 riots, two labor organizers, children of farmworkers, launched a scrappy new group to battle poverty and inequality. Over the following decades, the

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