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Hispanics in the Labor Force

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Editors:
  1. Edwin Melendez

    1. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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  2. Clara Rodriguez

    1. Division of the Social Science, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York, USA

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  3. Janis Barry Figueroa

    1. Division of the Social Science, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Hispanics in the Labor Force

    1. Hispanics in the Labor Force

      • Edwin Melendez, Clara E. Rodriguez, Janis Barry Figueroa
      Pages 1-21

  3. Earnings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. An Even Greater “U-Turn”

      • Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, Martin Carnoy, Hugh Daley
      Pages 25-52

    3. The Effects of Literacy on the Earnings of Hispanics in the United States

      • Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz
      Pages 53-75

    4. The Effect of Race on Puerto Rican Wages

      • Clara E. Rodriguez
      Pages 77-98

  4. Segmentation and Industrial Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Labor Market Structure and Wage Differences in New York City

      • Edwin Melendez
      Pages 101-118

    3. Latinos and Industrial Change in New York and Los Angeles

      • Vilma Ortiz
      Pages 119-132

  5. Government Employment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Hispanic Employment in the Public Sector

      • Cordelia Reimers, Howard Chernick
      Pages 135-157

    3. Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Employment Segmentation in New York City Agencies

      • Walter Stafford
      Pages 159-180

  6. Women, Family, and Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. A Comparison of Labor Supply Behavior among Single and Married Puerto Rican Mothers

      • Janis Barry Figueroa
      Pages 183-202

    3. Work and Family Responsibilities of Women in New York City

      • Terry J. Rosenberg
      Pages 203-222

  7. Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. Wage Policies, Employment, and Puerto Rican Migration

      • Carlos E. Santiago
      Pages 225-245

    3. Latino Research and Policy

      • Andres Torres, Clara E. Rodriguez
      Pages 247-263

    4. Latinos, Class, and the U. S. Political Economy

      • Rodolfo D. Torres, Adela de la Torre
      Pages 265-287

    5. Epilogue

      • Edwin Melendez, Clara E. Rodriguez, Janis Barry Figueroa
      Pages 289-299
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The bright side of the 1980s, or the "Hispanic decade," as it was dubbed early on, may ironically turn out to be the detail and sophistication with which the economic and social reversals affecting most Latinos in this period have been tracked, with a fresh cohort of Latino scholars playing an increasingly prominent role in this endeavor. As this volume conveys, these analyses are steadily probing more deeply into the fine grain of the processes bearing on the social conditions of U. S. Latinos and particularly into the diversity of the experiences of the several Latino-origin nationalities until recently generally treated in the aggre­ gate as "Hispanics. " Though still fragmented and tentative in perspective, as are the disciplines on which they draw and the research apparatus on which they rest, the quest among these new voices for a unifying perspective also comes across in this collection of essays. There is manifestly more under way here than a simple demand for inclusion of neglected instances on the margin of supposedly well understood larger or "mainstream" dynamics. The 1990s open with a more confident assertion of the centrality of the Latino presence and Latino actors in the overarching transformations reshaping U. S. society, and especially in the playing out of these restructurings in the regions and cities of Latino concentra­ tion.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Edwin Melendez

  • Division of the Social Science, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York, USA

    Clara Rodriguez, Janis Barry Figueroa

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