How the Other Half Works
Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor
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Publication
2003-01-06 - University of California Press
Language
English
Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7711220M
- ISBN-139780520229808
- ISBN-100520229800
- OCLC Control Number52843616
- OCLC Control Number49821001
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Numberhowotherhalfwork0000wald
- Library of Congress Control Number2002007571
- Goodreads6913221
- LibraryThing154020
Classifications
- LCCHD8083.C2 W35 2003
Description
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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