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Immigration and the American Workplace: Plus ça change … Immigration and the American Workplace: Plus ça change …
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Who Is Highly-Skilled for Low-Skilled Jobs? Who Is Highly-Skilled for Low-Skilled Jobs?
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“Incredibly Good Workers” and “Whining Pieces of Shit” “Incredibly Good Workers” and “Whining Pieces of Shit”
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Racial Realism and Employers of Color Racial Realism and Employers of Color
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Do Actions Follow Words? Do Actions Follow Words?
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Meatpacking: An Industry Transformed Meatpacking: An Industry Transformed
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Do Low-Skilled Workers Really Vary in Their Racial Abilities? Do Low-Skilled Workers Really Vary in Their Racial Abilities?
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Observations or Just Perceptions? Evidence of the Racial Abilities of Low-Skilled Workers Observations or Just Perceptions? Evidence of the Racial Abilities of Low-Skilled Workers
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Do African-Americans Seek the Same Jobs as Latinos and Asians? Do African-Americans Seek the Same Jobs as Latinos and Asians?
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Is Racial Realism in Low-Skilled Employment Illegal? Is Racial Realism in Low-Skilled Employment Illegal?
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The Difficulty of Proving “Disparate Treatment” Discrimination The Difficulty of Proving “Disparate Treatment” Discrimination
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“Disparate Impact” Discrimination: New Rules Enabling Racial and Immigrant Realism? “Disparate Impact” Discrimination: New Rules Enabling Racial and Immigrant Realism?
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Other Options? Using Immigration and Racketeering Law to Give Equal Opportunity in the Low-Skilled Workplace Other Options? Using Immigration and Racketeering Law to Give Equal Opportunity in the Low-Skilled Workplace
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5 The Jungle Revisited? Racial Realism in the Low-Skilled Sector
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Published:December 2013
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on low-skilled employment. It shows that employers have a racial hierarchy of preference and that they rely on word-of-mouth hiring to attract Latino and Asian workers with the racial and/or immigrant abilities they prize. The chapter gives special attention to meatpacking, a sector that has been racially remade in the past few decades. It then explores the ways Title VII of the Civil Rights Act should prevent this kind of hiring and shows how judges have created new opportunities for employers to use word-of-mouth hiring to build and maintain their Latino and Asian workforces without running afoul of the law. This chapter also shows how two other laws, the Immigration Reform and Control Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, would seem to prohibit immigrant realism but have nonetheless failed.
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