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The mobility of workers under advanced capitalism :

(Number (ISBN

0231505183

(Number (ISBN

9780231505185

Erroneous ISBN

0231116225

Erroneous ISBN

0231116233

Erroneous ISBN

9780231116220

Erroneous ISBN

9780231116237

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b710870

Title Proper

The mobility of workers under advanced capitalism :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Dominican migration to the United States /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ramona Hernández.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Columbia University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2002]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2002

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvi, 227 pages) :

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illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.

Text of Note

The great exodus : its roots -- Economic growth and surplus population -- The perception of a migratory movement -- Dominicans in the labor market -- On the international mobility of labor -- Conclusion : assessing the present and auguring the future.

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"What explains the international mobility of workers from developing to advanced societies? Why do workers move from one region to another? Theoretically, the supply of workers in a given region and the demand for them in another account for the international mobility of laborers. Job seekers from less developed regions migrate to more advanced countries where technological and productive transformations have produced a shortage of laborers. Using the Dominican labor force in New York as a case study, Ramona Hernández challenges this presumption of a straightforward relationship between supply and demand in the job markets of the receiving society. She contends that the traditional correlation between migration and economic progress does not always hold true. Once transplanted in New York City, Hernández shows, Dominicans have faced economic hardship as the result of high levels of unemployment and underemployment and the reality of a changing labor market that increasingly requires workers with skills and training they do not have. Rather than responding to a demand in the labor market, emigration from the Dominican Republic was the result of a de facto government policy encouraging poor and jobless people to leave--a policy in which the United States was an accomplice because the policy suited its economic and political interests in the region."--

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctt2fsf97

Title

Mobility of workers under advanced capitalism.

International Standard Book Number

0231116225

Parallel Title

Dominican migration to the United States

Capitalism-- United States.

Foreign workers, Dominican-- United States.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Labor.

Capitalism.

Emigration and immigration.

Foreign workers, Dominican.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Emigration & Immigration.

United States, Emigration and immigration.

United States.

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BUS-- 038000

SOC007000

SOC008000

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Edition

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Book number

Hernández, Ramona

Date of Transaction

20201208013759.0

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pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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