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



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Autore: Waldinger Roger David Visualizza persona
Titolo: How the other half works [[electronic resource] ] : immigration and the social organization of labor / / Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
Disciplina: 331.6/2/097949409049
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto non controllato: career
civic
class issues
contemporary america
historians
historical
history
immigrant experience
immigrants
immigration
labor and culture
labor issues
labor organizations
labor studies
los angeles
migrant workers
modern economy
modern history
nonfiction
political science
political
race and class
social issues
social studies
sociology
students and teachers
survey
textbooks
unskilled immigrants
unskilled workers
workforce
Altri autori: LichterMichael Ira <1960->  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: How the other half works  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35954-1
1-59734-664-0
0-520-93617-5
9786612359545
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783080203321
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