How the other half works : immigration and the social organization of labor / Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter.

By:

Waldinger, Roger David

Contributor(s):

Lichter, Michael Ira, 1960-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520936171
0520936175
0585466181
9780585466187
1597346640
9781597346641
9780520229808
0520229800
9780520231627
0520231627
1282359541
9781282359543

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: How the other half works.DDC classification:

331.6/2/097949409049 21

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HD8083.C2 W35 2003eb

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.

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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