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Klappentext 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. 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. 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
