Making Room for the Future

Making Room for the Future
Author: David E. Dowall
Publisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1582130450

Factories in the Field

Factories in the Field
Author: Carey McWilliams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2000-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520925181

This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions

Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes

Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes
Author: Daniel Brod
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2013
Genre: Highway-railroad grade crossings
ISBN: 0309283485

"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 755: Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes describes a process for estimating the costs of highway-rail grade crossing crashes. A spreadsheet-based tool to facilitate use of the cost estimation process is available online." --Publisher description.

California 2025

California 2025
Author: Ellen Hanak
Publisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781582131108

Guide for Pavement Friction

Guide for Pavement Friction
Author:
Publisher: AASHTO
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2008
Genre: Pavements
ISBN: 1560514280

This report contains guidelines and recommendations for managing and designing for friction on highway pavements. The contents of this report will be of interest to highway materials, construction, pavement management, safety, design, and research engineers, as well as others concerned with the friction and related surface characteristics of highway pavements.