Still the Promised City? - African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York

Informationen zum Autor Roger Waldinger is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Roger Waldinger, Waldinger Roger
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.1999
• EAN: 9780674000728
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00072-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; New York, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Sociology: work & labour, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Black & Asian Studies, Sociology: work and labour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Civics and citizenship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General