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How the other half works : immigration and the social organization of labor / Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter.
LIBRA HD8083.C2 W35 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waldinger, Roger David
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers--California--Los Angeles County.
- Foreign workers.
- Unskilled labor--California--Los Angeles County.
- Unskilled labor.
- Immigrants--Social networks--California--Los Angeles County.
- Immigrants.
- Employer attitude surveys--California--Los Angeles County.
- Employer attitude surveys.
- Immigrants--Social networks.
- California--Los Angeles County.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 285 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520229800
- 0520231627
- OCLC:
- 49821001
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