| Description |
viii, 309 p. : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Labor and social change. |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
Published 1994. |
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Printed in the United States of America. |
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Garden City -- Miami -- Philadelphia. |
| Note |
Introduction -- Beef Stew: Cattle, Immigrants, and Established Residents in a Kansas Beefpacking Town -- Knock 'Em Dead: Work on the Killfloor of a Modern Beefpacking Plant -- Guys in White Hats: Short-Term Participant Observation among Beef-Processing Workers and Managers -- The Effects of Packinghouse Work on Southeast Asian Refugee Families -- Miami: Capital of Latin America -- Brothers in Wood -- Grounding the Saturn Plant: Failed Restructuring in a Miami Apparel Plant -- The View from the Back of the House: Restaurants and Hotels in Miami -- Polishing the Rustbelt: Immigrants Enter a Restructuring Philadelphia -- Facing Job Loss: Changing Relationships in a Multicultural Urban Factory -- Encounters Over the Counter: Bosses, Workers, and Customers on a Changing Shopping Strip -- Poverty and Politics: Practice and Ideology among Small Business Owners in an Urban Enterprise Zone. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2020. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Subject |
Alien labor -- Kansas -- Garden City.
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Alien labor -- Florida -- Miami.
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Alien labor -- 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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Lamphere, Louise.
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Stepick, Alex.
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Grenier, Guillermo J.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Added Author |
Rayman, Paula edited by
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Sirianni, Carmen edited by
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
1566391245 paper |
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1566391318 paper |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb34331 hdl |
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