Hispanics in the Labor Force: Issues and Policies (1991) (Environment, Development and Public Policy: Public Policy and Social Services)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

1991

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781489906557

Related ISBNs:

9780306437991

Publisher:

Springer US

Date of Addition:

01/27/21

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N/A

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Politics and Government, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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Edited by:

Edwin Melendez

Edited by:

Clara Rodriguez

Edited by:

Janis B. Figueroa