African-Americans and new immigrants in postindustrial New York Waldinger, Roger David 1953- creator text bibliography mau Cambridge, Mass Harvard University Press 1996 monographic eng

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x, 374 pages : 23 cm. Waldinger examines why African-Americans have fared so poorly in securing unskilled jobs in the postwar era and why new immigrants have done so well. Using New York to look at the relationships among race, immigration, and social mobility, Waldinger offers a new understanding of a serious social problem and fresh approaches to attacking it. Acknowledgments 1. The New Urban Reality 2. People and Jobs 3. The Ethnic Division of Labor Transformed 4. The Making and Remaking of the Ethnic Niche 5. Who Gets the "Lousy" Jobs? 6. Who Gets the Good Jobs? 7. The Ethnic Politics of Municipal Jobs 8. Small Business: The Interplay of Economy and Ethnicity 9. Beyond Black and White Appendix 1: Shift-Share Analysis Appendix 2: Field Research Methods Notes Index Roger Waldinger. Includes bibliographical references and index. ma----- aw----- Afroamericanos Condiciones económicas Nueva York (Estados Unidos) Afroamericanos Empleo Nueva York (Estados Unidos) Trabajadores extranjeros Nueva York (Estados Unidos) Nueva York (Estados Unidos) Condiciones económicas 002 F 128.9 W163s 1996 330.9747/1/00896073 9780674000728 0674000722 DLC 030410 20241024123258.0 13157408 eng