The mobility of workers under advanced capitalism : Dominican migration to the United States, Ramona Hernández, (electronic resource)

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The mobility of workers under advanced capitalism : Dominican migration to the United States, Ramona Hernández, (electronic resource)

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Dominican migration to the United States

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electronic resource

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Ramona Hernández

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• The mobility of workers under advanced capitalism : Dominican migration to the United States

Publication

• New York, Columbia University Press, 2002

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• ©2002

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-216) and index

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online resource

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Machine generated contents note: PART I. Leaving the Land of the Few 19 -- The Great Exodus: Its Roots 21 -- Explaining Dominican Migration 23 -- The Middle Class and the Urban Background: -- Deconstruction of a False Identity 26 -- The Making of a Migratory Movement: -- An Alternative Reading 33 -- The United States, the Rise of Balaguer, and the Circulation -- of Capital and Workers 34 -- The Politics of Stability: Family Planning and Emigration 39 -- 2. Economic Growth and Surplus Population 51 -- The Road to Modernization: Import Substitution 52 -- The Cattle-Agricultural Sector 56 -- Urban Centers and the Mobility of Surplus Labor 60 -- Economic Rearticulation in Search of Accumulation 63 -- The Reproduction of Labor Power and Surplus Labor: -- The Antecedent to Emigration 69 -- Economic Accumulation and Crisis 72 -- Public Spending 82 -- A General Assessment of Migrants and Migration from -- the Dominican Republic 84 -- PART 2. Settling in the Land of Dreams 87 -- 3. The Perception of a Migratory Movement 89 -- Hard Work, High Poverty: Life in the Metropolis 97 -- The Head of the Household: A Woman's Story 103 -- The Washington Heights Dominican Community: -- The Construction of an Image 1o8 -- The Untold Story: The Other Face of a Community 112 -- Marginalization and Poverty Among Dominicans: -- An Assessment 117 -- 4. Dominicans in the Labor Market 120 -- Dominicans as Workers in New York City 121 -- The Larger Economic Picture 122 -- The Restructuring of the Economy: -- A Theory ofJob Creation 124 -- Industrial Distribution of Dominican Labor Force 127 -- Occupational Distribution 130 -- Earnings 131 -- Labor Force Participation Rates and Unemployment 133 -- Explaining Labor Market Differentiations 136 -- Poor Labor Market Outcomes Among Dominicans: -- Current Explanations 138 -- Toward an Alternative Explanation Concerning -- Labor Market Outcomes Among Dominicans 142 -- The Limits of Demand 144 -- 5. On the International Mobility of Labor 149 -- Labor Mobility and Demand 152 -- Migration and Declining Labor Demand at the Core 154 -- Looking for More ThanJust Human Capital Qualities 161 -- In Sum, the Restructuring of the Economy: -- No Need For Extra Hands 164 -- Contesting and Controlling Mass Immigration in the -- Land of Opportunities 168 -- Surplus Here, Surplus There, Surplus Everywhere: -- Displaced Workers and the State 171 -- 6. Conclusion: Assessing the Present and Auguring -- the Future 177 -- The United States 177 -- The Dominican Republic 178 -- The Dominican People 181 -- Appendix: Figures 185 -- Notes I97 -- Works Cited 205 -- Index 217

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24 cm

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xvi, 227 pages

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electronic

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9780231116220

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illustrations

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u1531970

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(Sirsi) a1531970