03382nam 22007094a 450 991082698810332120200520144314.01-282-35954-11-59734-664-00-520-93617-5978661235954510.1525/9780520936171(CKB)1000000000003766(EBL)224245(OCoLC)475930294(SSID)ssj0000173607(PQKBManifestationID)11176932(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173607(PQKBWorkID)10165083(PQKB)11700334(MiAaPQ)EBC224245(DE-B1597)519739(OCoLC)52843616(DE-B1597)9780520936171(Au-PeEL)EBL224245(CaPaEBR)ebr10051161(CaONFJC)MIL235954(EXLCZ)99100000000000376620020515d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHow the other half works immigration and the social organization of labor /Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter1st ed.Berkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc20031 online resource (301 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22980-0 0-520-23162-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-276) and index.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 --IndexHow 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.Foreign workersCaliforniaLos Angeles CountyEmployer attitude surveysCaliforniaLos Angeles CountyImmigrantsSocial networksCaliforniaLos Angeles CountyUnskilled laborCaliforniaLos Angeles CountyForeign workersEmployer attitude surveysImmigrantsSocial networksUnskilled labor331.6/2/097949409049Waldinger Roger David276312Lichter Michael Ira1960-1691910MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826988103321How the other half works4068622UNINA