Latinos in a Changing Us Economy - Comparative Perspectives on Growing Inequality

The contributors identify the increasing differences in income and social status between rich and poor, Anglos and Latinos, men and women, immigrant and native born, and suggest policy options that will reverse the growth of social inequality. National data as well as a series of case studies from important Latino cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Chicago and Miami are presented.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - John H Stanfield II
Restructuring and the New Inequality - Rebecca Morales and Frank Bonilla
The Changing Economic Position of Latinos in the US Labor Market Since 1939 - Martin Carnoy, Hugh Daley and Raul Hinojosa
The Illusion of Progress - Rebecca Morales and Paul Ong
Latinos in Los Angeles
Decline Within Decline - Andres Torres and Frank Bonilla
The New York Perspective
Economic Restructuring and the Process of Incorporation of Latinos Into the Chicago Economy - John J Betancur, Teresa Cordova and Maria de los Angeles Torres
Cubans and the Changing Economy of Miami - Marifeli Pérez-Stable and Miren Uriarte
The Changing Economic Position of Mexican Americans in San Antonio - Gilberto Cardenas, Jorge Chapa and Susan Burek
Urban Transformation and Employment - Saskia Sassen
An Unnatural Trade-Off - Paul M Ong and Evelyn Blumenberg
Latinos and Environmental Justice
Critical Theory and Policy in an Era of Ethnic Diversity - Frank Bonilla and Rebecca Morales
Economic Interdependence and Growing Inequality

Zusammenfassung

The contributors identify the increasing differences in income and social status between rich and poor, Anglos and Latinos, men and women, immigrant and native born, and suggest policy options that will reverse the growth of social inequality. National data as well as a series of case studies from important Latino cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Chicago and Miami are presented.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rebecca Morales, Rebecca Bonilla Morales
• Mitarbeit: Frank Bonilla (Herausgeber), Bonilla Frank (Herausgeber), Rebecca Morales (Herausgeber), Morales Rebecca (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 23.04.1993
• EAN: 9780803949249
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-4924-9
• Seiten: 280
• Serien: Sage Series on Race and Ethnic; SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations; Sage Race and Ethnic Relations
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Volkswirtschaft; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Physical anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies