Wrong Levi Strauss. The one who founded the corporation was a German
Jew who emigrated to the US around 1850. His birth name was Loeb
Strauss, but in the States he renamed himself Levi. No connection
to Claude, except by the fact that we are all connected and so forth.
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The Levi Strauss Corporation has become well known in communities of color in the US for oppressive work conditions. They finally closesd all their factories in the US and moved to third world countries in search of cheaper labor and more lax regulation. Check out Fuerza Unida, a woman of color group formed as a result of the closure of a LSC in Texas. Quite a legacy.
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As a student of anthropology (as a minor in university right now) I am
strongly respectful of Levi Strauss and am sad at his passing (old as
he was).
Structural Anthropology was very good.
He's on par with Durkheim, Bourdieu and Weber.