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How the other half works : immigration and the social organization of labor / Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waldinger, Roger David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers--California--Los Angeles County.
- Foreign workers.
- Employer attitude surveys--California--Los Angeles County.
- Employer attitude surveys.
- Immigrants--Social networks--California--Los Angeles County.
- Immigrants.
- Unskilled labor--California--Los Angeles County.
- Unskilled labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612359545
- 9781282359543
- 1282359541
- 9781597346641
- 1597346640
- 9780520936171
- 0520936175
- OCLC:
- 475930294
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