Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Pvn-Lot-012-K-057, Santiago Morales Escabar

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-012-K-056, Santiago Morales Escabar

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-012-K-055, Santiago Morales Escabar

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-012-K-054, Santiago Morales Escabar

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Social Networks And Employment For Latinos, Blacks, And Whites, Luis M. Falcón

New England Journal of Public Policy

Despite the immigrant character of Latino groups in the United States, little attention has been given to the role of social networks in the job-search process and in labor market outcomes for Latinos. The literature on social networks describes their use as important in providing access to jobs but neutral as to affecting earnings or attainment of prestige. This study uses data from a 1988-1989 Boston survey to examine the effect of finding employment through social networks on the income attainment of white, black, and Latino workers. Job seekers in all groups rely on such networks, but Latinos exhibit the …

Immigrant Workers In The Cleaning Industry: The Experience Of Boston's Central Americans, Karen M. Lado

New England Journal of Public Policy

This study has two objectives: to describe Central Americans' employment experience in the Boston area by focusing on cleaning workers and to explore the reasons why Central Americans in particular, and immigrants in general, become concentrated in industries like cleaning. The study highlights a number of characteristics of immigrant workers and of cleaning work that contribute to employment in the industry. Recent immigrants need jobs that do not require English skills or formal training, can be accessed informally, and offer schedules that allow them to take on additional work. Cleaning companies, in turn, need a constant source of reliable workers …

Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley

New England Journal of Public Policy

These two issues of the Journal focus exclusively on the Latino community in the United States, which is the fastest-growing minority in the country. It is a development that poses profound questions regarding the course this country will take into the twenty-first century and the way in which it will define itself. It will sever the almost metaphysical distinctions between the melting pot and multiculturalism, opposites on a philosophical curve that are as much self-created as self-evident.

Three areas of Latino experience are examined in this volume — the impact of immigration policies, employment and income opportunities, and the degree …

Persistence Of Poverty Across Generations: A Comparison Of Anglos, Blacks, And Latinos, Anna M. Santiago, Yolanda C. Padilla

New England Journal of Public Policy

Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this study examines the impact of children's growing up in poverty on the probability of their remaining in poverty during young adulthood. The primary goals of the research are to examine racial, ethnic, and gender differences in patterns of persistent poverty and to identify predictors of poverty status in young adulthood. The results suggest that both women, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or adolescent poverty status, and black men who grew up in poverty are more likely to be poor as young adults than Anglo men. Logistic regression analyses reveal that …

Latinos And Labor: Challenges And Opportunities, Andrés Torres

New England Journal of Public Policy

The growing presence of Latino workers in the Massachusetts labor force presents opportunities as well as challenges for the labor movement. An overview of occupational, industrial, and unionization patterns helps to describe the potential for Hispanic contribution to renewed union strength in the region. But revitalizing the house of labor in the twenty-first century requires an innovative interplay of workplace and community strategies. As labor comes to terms with its multiracial/multicultural constituency, the relationship between class and race/ethnicity is being revisited, as is the very definition of "labor movement."

Mexican-American Class Structure And Political Participation, Jorge Chapa

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article examines the political attitudes and participation of Mexican-Americans in the context of Milton Gordon's assimilation theory and William Julius Wilson's analyses of bifurcated economic structures resulting in middle-class and lower- or underclass populations. For Gordon, civic assimilation was a step toward complete assimilation. After demonstrating that the Mexican-American population has not achieved parity with the Anglo population even when controlling for generational differences over five decades, the author specifically examines the political attitudes and practices of lower-class (high school dropouts) and middle-class (high school graduates) third-generation Mexican-Americans. The two class groups have similar attitudes about bilingual education and …

"New" Civil Rights Strategies For Latino Political Empowerment, Seth Racusen

New England Journal of Public Policy

Latinos became the largest "minority" group and significantly increased their political representation in Massachusetts in the past decade. Even with these gains, their political power is not nearly commensurate with the size of their population. Many aspects of Latino political demographics, including a large immigrant population with low citizenship rates, high poverty rates, and dispersion across many electoral districts, contribute to their underrepresentation. The political demographics facing Massachusetts Latinos have led many analysts to prescribe alternative electoral systems as avenues to achieve increased political representation. This article reviews the critiques of the 1970s and 1980s civil rights redistricting strategies and …

Latina Women And Political Leadership: Implications For Latino Community Empowerment, Carol Hardy-Fanta

New England Journal of Public Policy

Mainstream studies of Latino politics have tended to reflect a primarily male view of political participation and political leadership. In such a view, the study of Latino political leadership continues the tradition of viewing leadership as derived from official positions in elected or appointed office and informal organizations. This article demonstrates that (1) contrary to prevailing myths, Latina women in Massachusetts run for and are elected to office in very high numbers, and (2) when the definition of political leadership is expanded to include community-based, not solely position-derived, forms of leadership, Latino community empowerment may depend, to a great extent, …

Latinos Need Not Apply: The Effects Of Industrial Change And Workplace Discrimination On Latino Employment, Edwin Meléndez, Françoise Carré, Evangelina Holvino

New England Journal of Public Policy

The objective of the research described here is to assess how recent changes in the organization of industry and discrimination in the workplace affect the employment of Latinos. One of the most important developments in labor markets during the past two decades is the erosion of internal labor markets. Employers are responding to intensified competitive conditions that developed during the 1980s: increased international competition in domestic markets and deregulation in telecommunications, banking, insurance, and other industries. The development of information technologies and the diffusion of secondary and postsecondary education have enabled organizations to cut labor costs. In particular, firms are …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 019, Number 31, March 20, 1995, Grand Valley State University

1994-1995, Volume 19

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Spartan Daily, March 20, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 104, Issue 37

Linden World, March 20, 1995, Lindenwood College

Linden World (1985-1997)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood College

Pvn-Lot-053-J-056, Matthew Turek

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-016-P-032, Andrew Kindon

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-013-M-015, Peter Agelasto

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Columbia Chronicle (03/20/1995), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from March 20, 1995 entitled The Columbia College Chronicle. This issue is 8 pages and is listed as Volume 28, Number 18. Cover story: "Sound Majors Get Their Day" Editor in Chief: Sergio Barreto

Pvn-Lot-014-E1995-080, Christian Wells

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Prospectus, March 22, 1995, Andrea Franklin, Kimberly Doehring, Melissa Vaughn, Tammy K. Mahaffey, Alden Loury, Tricia Murphy, Leshaundra Brownlee, Brandon Lewis

Prospectus 1995

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-016-P-031, Andrew Kindon

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-016-O-055, Andrew Kindon

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-016-O-054, Andrew Kindon

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-016-O-053, Andrew Kindon

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-016-H-058, John Dietler

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-016-H-057, John Dietler

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-016-H-056, John Dietler

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-016-H-055, John Dietler

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.