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Author Waldinger, Roger David

Title How the other half works : immigration and the social organization of labor / Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages)
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
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
Analysis Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Foreign workers -- California -- Los Angeles County
Unskilled labor -- California -- Los Angeles County
Immigrants -- Social networks -- California -- Los Angeles County
Employer attitude surveys -- California -- Los Angeles County
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Employer attitude surveys
Foreign workers
Immigrants -- Social networks
Unskilled labor
California -- Los Angeles County
Form Electronic book
Author Lichter, Michael Ira, 1960-
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