| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index. |
| 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. 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 |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: How the Other Half Works; PART TWO: The Social Organization of Labor; PART THREE: From Market to Work; PART FOUR: Prejudice, Preferences, and Conflict; PART FIVE: Ethnicity at Work; Appendix: The Local Context; Notes; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Foreign workers -- California -- Los Angeles County.
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Foreign workers. |
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California -- Los Angeles County. |
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Unskilled labor -- California -- Los Angeles County.
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Unskilled labor. |
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Immigrants -- Social networks -- California -- Los Angeles County.
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Immigrants -- Social networks. |
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Immigrants. |
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Employer attitude surveys -- California -- Los Angeles County.
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Employer attitude surveys. |
| Indexed Term |
Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lichter, Michael Ira, 1960-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Waldinger, Roger David. How the other half works. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2003 0520229800 (DLC) 2002007571 (OCoLC)49821001 |
| ISBN |
9780520936171 (electronic book) |
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0520936175 (electronic book) |
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0585466181 (electronic book) |
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9780585466187 (electronic book) |
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1597346640 |
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9781597346641 |
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9780520229808 (Cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520229800 (Cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520231627 (Paper ; alkaline paper) |
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0520231627 (Paper ; alkaline paper) |
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1282359541 |
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9781282359543 |
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