Author: Rebecca Budde
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825883973
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Studying the urban agglomeration of Los Angeles County is on the one hand very interesting, exciting, as there is such a wide variety of people living there. This not only concerning ethnic origins but also in view of social classes, (haves and have nots), sub cultures, 'Lebenswelten' and milieus. On the other hand, studying L.A. empirically, i.e. living, working and more than anything else talking to people while observing them, gives an insight into how a society so full of discrepancies works and operates. "To live from day to day. That is life in L.A." Mirna, Los Angeles Garment Worker from Guatemala. Undocumented migration to the U.S. and the U.S.-American textile and garment industry are examples that demonstrate well the interconnectedness of international economic interests, policy-making and migration flows.
Author: Rick Baldoz
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592138098
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Essays that challenge the benefits of globalization and new technologies.
Author: Sheldon L. Maram
Publisher:
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Category : Clothing workers
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Ulrich Oberdiek
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3825807959
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Author: Sheldon L. Maram
Publisher:
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Category : Alien labor, Mexican
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Author: Isaias James McCaffery
Publisher:
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Category : Clothing workers
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Author: Roger Waldinger
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610445473
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Since 1965 more immigrants have come to Los Angeles than anywhere else in the United States. These newcomers have rapidly and profoundly transformed the city's ethnic makeup and sparked heated debate over their impact on the region's troubled economy. Ethnic Los Angeles presents a multi-investigator study of L.A.'s immigrant population, exploring the scope, characteristics, and consequences of ethnic transition in the nation's second most populous urban center. Using the wealth of information contained in the U.S. censuses of 1970, 1980, and 1990, essays on each of L.A.'s major ethnic groups tell who the immigrants are, where they come from, the skills they bring and their sources of employment, and the nature of their families and social networks. The contributors explain the history of legislation and economic change that made the city a magnet for immigration, and compare the progress of new immigrants to those of previous eras. Recent immigrants to Los Angeles follow no uniform course of adaptation, nor do they simply assimilate into the mainstream society. Instead, they have entered into distinct niches at both the high and low ends of the economic spectrum. While Asians and Middle Easterners have thrived within the medical and technical professions, low-skill newcomers from Central America provide cheap labor in light manufacturing industries. As Ethnic Los Angeles makes clear, the city's future will depend both on how well its economy accommodates its diverse population, and on how that population adapts to economic changes. The more prosperous immigrants arrived already possessed of advanced educations and skills, but what does the future hold for less-skilled newcomers? Will their children be able to advance socially and economically, as the children of previous immigrants once did? The contributors examine the effect of racial discrimination, both in favoring low-skilled immigrant job seekers over African Americans, and in preventing the more successful immigrants and native-born ethnic groups from achieving full economic parity with whites. Ethnic Los Angeles is an illuminating portrait of a city whose unprecedented changes are sure to be replicated in other urban areas as new concentrations of immigrants develop. Backed by detailed demographic information and insightful analyses, this volume engages all of the issues that are central to today's debates about immigration, ethnicity, and economic opportunity in a post-industrial urban society.
Author: Rodolfo D. Torres
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135272913
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Ruth Milkman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801486173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Comprises nine papers which explore the recruitment of immigrant workers into trade unions in different industries in California, USA mainly during the 1990s. Includes chapters on the relationship between immigrant status and unionization, both nationally and in California, and innovative tactics used by unions to recruit new workers.
Author: James Kiernan
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825887612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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The occult is a framework of ideas and related practices that is drawn upon as a common resource to provide an understanding of how an apparently random world 'really' works. Based mainly on experiential research in a range of African societies, the essays in this volume examine the relevance of the occult to a variety of social concepts and contexts. These studies stress three features of the occult in modern Africa: 1) as an explanatory and tactical device, it is resilient; 2) it is malleable, with a capacity to absorb and assimilate new elements; 3) it is flexible and adaptable to emerging situations and novel circumstances. Of interest to specialists in the fields of religion, social science and African studies, this book will benefit the general reader interested in the occult and its relevance to modernity and globalisation.
