| Description |
ix, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Labor and social change |
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Labor and social change.
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| Contents |
Beef stew : cattle, immigrants, and established residents in a Kansas beefpacking town / Michael Broadway -- Knock 'em dead : work on the killfloor of a modern beefpacking plant / Donald D. Stull -- Guys in white hats : short-term participant observation among beef-processing workers and managers / Ken C. Erickson -- The effects of packinghouse work on southeast Asian refugee families / Janet E. Benson -- Miami : capital of Latin America / Alex Stepick -- Brothers in wood / Alex Stepick and Guillermo Grenier, with Steve Morris and Debbie Draznin -- Grounding the Saturn plant : failed restructuring in a Miami apparel plant / Guillermo Grenier and Alex Stepick, with Aline LaBorwit -- The view from the back of the house : restaurants and hotels in Miami / Alex Stepick [and others] -- Polishing the rustbelt : immigrants enter a restructuring Philadelphia / Judith Goode -- Facing job loss : changing relationships in a multicultural urban factory / Carole Cohen -- Encounters over the counter : bosses, workers, and customers on a changing shopping strip / Judith Goode -- Poverty and politics : practice and ideology among small business owners in an urban enterprise zone / Cynthia Carter Ninivaggi. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Foreign workers -- Kansas -- Garden City.
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Foreign workers -- Florida -- Miami.
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Foreign workers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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Immigrants -- Kansas -- Garden City.
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Immigrants -- Florida -- Miami.
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Immigrants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-
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| Added Author |
Lamphere, Louise.
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Stepick, Alex.
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Grenier, Guillermo J.
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| ISBN |
1566391245 cloth alkaline paper |
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1566391318 paperback alkaline paper |
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