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How the other half works : immigration and the social organization of labor /
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 prese...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520936171 0520936175 0585466181 9780585466187 1597346640 9781597346641 9780520229808 0520229800 9780520231627 0520231627 1282359541 9781282359543 |