1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450259303321

Autore

Waldinger Roger David

Titolo

How the other half works [[electronic resource] ] : immigration and the social organization of labor / / Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-35954-1

1-59734-664-0

0-520-93617-5

9786612359545

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LichterMichael Ira <1960->

Disciplina

331.6/2/097949409049

Soggetti

Foreign workers - California - Los Angeles County

Employer attitude surveys - California - Los Angeles County

Immigrants - Social networks - California - Los Angeles County

Unskilled labor - California - Los Angeles County

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Employers Want -- 3. Doing the Job -- 4. The Language of Work -- 5. Network, Bureaucracy, and Exclusion -- 6. Social Capital and Social Closure -- 7. Bringing the Boss Back In -- 8. Whom Employers Want -- 9. "Us" and "Them" -- 10. Diversity and Its Discontents -- 11. Black/Immigrant Competition -- 12. Conclusion -- Appendix: The Local Context -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand. In clear and engaging style, Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors that explain the presence of unskilled immigrants in our midst. Focusing on Los Angeles, the capital of today's immigrant America, this hard-hitting book elucidates the other side of the new economy, showing that hiring is finding not so much "one's own kind" but rather the "right kind" to fit the demeaning, but



indispensable, jobs many American workers disdain.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910711337403321

Autore

Young Loyd L. <1909-1981, >

Titolo

Waterpower resources in Trask River basin, Oregon / / by L.L. Young With sections on geology of sites by R.G. Wayland and D.L. Gaskill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, , 1963

Washington : , : United States Government Printing Office

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 44 pages, 2 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Geological Survey water-supply paper ; ; 1610-B

Waterpower resources of the United States

Soggetti

Geology - Oregon - Trask River Watershed

Water-power - Oregon - Trask River Watershed

Geology

Water-power

Oregon Trask River Watershed

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A discussion of potential power and of development possibilities including discussions of geology and out-of-basin diversion."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 44).