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UNINA9910783080203321 |
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Autore |
Waldinger Roger David |
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Titolo |
How the other half works [[electronic resource] ] : immigration and the social organization of labor / / Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-35954-1 |
1-59734-664-0 |
0-520-93617-5 |
9786612359545 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (301 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LichterMichael Ira <1960-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-276) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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