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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b12715040.
- catalog contributor b12715041.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-276) and index.".
- catalog description "List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART ONE -- How the Other Half Works Introduction PART TWO -- Social Organization of Labor -- What Employers Want -- Doing the Job -- Language of Work PART THREE -- From Market to Work -- Network, Bureaucracy, and Exclusion -- Social Capital and Social Closure -- Bringing the Boss Back In PART FOUR -- Prejudice, Preferences, and Conflict -- Whom Employers Want -- "Us" and "Them" -- Diversity and Its Discontents PART FIVE -- Ethnicity at Work -- Black/Immigrant Competition Conclusion Appendix: The Local Context Notes Index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 285 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520229800 (Cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0520231627 (Paper : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "California Los Angeles County.".
- catalog subject "331.6/2/097949409049 21".
- catalog subject "Employer attitude surveys California Los Angeles County.".
- catalog subject "Foreign workers California Los Angeles County.".
- catalog subject "HD8083.C2 W35 2003".
- catalog subject "Immigrants Social networks California Los Angeles County.".
- catalog subject "Unskilled labor California Los Angeles County.".
- catalog tableOfContents "List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART ONE -- How the Other Half Works Introduction PART TWO -- Social Organization of Labor -- What Employers Want -- Doing the Job -- Language of Work PART THREE -- From Market to Work -- Network, Bureaucracy, and Exclusion -- Social Capital and Social Closure -- Bringing the Boss Back In PART FOUR -- Prejudice, Preferences, and Conflict -- Whom Employers Want -- "Us" and "Them" -- Diversity and Its Discontents PART FIVE -- Ethnicity at Work -- Black/Immigrant Competition Conclusion Appendix: The Local Context Notes Index.".
- catalog title "How the other half works : immigration and the social organization of labor / Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter.".
- catalog type "text".