Mexican Americans and the U.S. Economy: Quest for Buenos Días (The Mexican American Experience)
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Genres: Business & Money, History, Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Business & Money, History, Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Mexican American economic contributions, a book apparently used in upper division classes and part of a series. It includes discussion questions, glossary, references, and index. There are some tables.
The author utterly fails to address (speaking from my experience in LA) the propensity of immigrants to insist on working alongside 'their own, to reside in areas with 'their own,' to run non-immigrant students out of high schools despite the well known fact that diverse classrooms lead to better learning, and to work for employers who don't pay overtime, honor holidays (tomorrow is Armistice Day--few will get time and a half), carry workers compensation as long as the workforce is not diverse.
Dr. Gonzalez lays out succinctly his argument in pp. 126-129. However, I visited 63 different Subway Sandwich Shops and found no vets employed, one American Black, and no one pushing fifty. Here, on the Coast, there used to often be one guy called 'Pop' working at the Orange Julius Stand or whatever.
Ms. Epth's (Jewish WWII vet) apartment building in West Hollwood, where everyone else was Jewish but immigrated from Russia, was not as happy as it should have been as they all seemed to want her out in order to bring in one of 'their own.'
There is little diversity here in the flower trade, construction industry, rag trade, high schools, and so on.
The author utterly fails to address (speaking from my experience in LA) the propensity of immigrants to insist on working alongside 'their own, to reside in areas with 'their own,' to run non-immigrant students out of high schools despite the well known fact that diverse classrooms lead to better learning, and to work for employers who don't pay overtime, honor holidays (tomorrow is Armistice Day--few will get time and a half), carry workers compensation as long as the workforce is not diverse.
Dr. Gonzalez lays out succinctly his argument in pp. 126-129. However, I visited 63 different Subway Sandwich Shops and found no vets employed, one American Black, and no one pushing fifty. Here, on the Coast, there used to often be one guy called 'Pop' working at the Orange Julius Stand or whatever.
Ms. Epth's (Jewish WWII vet) apartment building in West Hollwood, where everyone else was Jewish but immigrated from Russia, was not as happy as it should have been as they all seemed to want her out in order to bring in one of 'their own.'
There is little diversity here in the flower trade, construction industry, rag trade, high schools, and so on.
