Research Catalog

Title

Mexican and Central American L.A. garment workers : globalized industries and their economic constraints / Rebecca Budde.

Author

Budde, Rebecca

Publication

Münster : Lit, 2005.

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Details

Description

152 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Bd. 1

Uniform Title

Soziologie und Anthropologie (Lit (Firm)) Bd. 1.

Alternative Title

Mexican and Central American Los Angeles garment workers

Subject

• Clothing workers > Los Angeles
• Clothing trade > Los Angeles
• Foreign workers, Mexican > Los Angeles
• Foreign workers, Latin American > Los Angeles

Genre/Form

• doctoral dissertations.
• masters theses.
• theses.
• dissertations.
• Academic theses
• Thèses et écrits académiques.

Note

• Dissertation.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical references p. 75 - 85.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part I. Prevailing Conditions -- 1. Sociological Theories of Migration -- 1.1. Early Macrostructural Migration Research -- 1.1.1. Ravenstein's Gravitation Model -- 1.1.2. Neoclassical Models of Migration Theory -- 1.2. Contemporary Macrostructural Migration Research -- 1.2.1. Globalization Theories concerning Migration -- 1.2.2. Transnational Migrants -- 1.3. Microstructural Migration Research -- 1.3.1. Social Networks -- 1.3.2. Theories of Integration -- 2. Outline of Migration Laws in the USA (1942-2003) -- 3. USA: A Closed Society? -- 4. Historical Outline of the US-American Apparel Industry (1900-2000) -- 5. Globalization and the New International Division of Labor -- 5.1. Globalization of the Textile and Apparel Industry- Prevailing Legal Conditions -- 5.2. Effects of the NIDL on the US-American Apparel Industry and Political and Economic Measures to contend with the Situation -- 5.3. Excursion: Outline of the Economic Development in Mexico and Central America -- 5.4. Interaction between Capital and Workforce Mobility -- 6. Los Angeles, CA- Center of Light Industry -- 6.1. Los Angeles Apparel Industry Structure -- 6.2. Los Angeles Population Structure -- 6.3. Employment Structure of the Los Angeles Apparel Industry -- 6.4. Contemporary Trends towards Union Organization in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry -- Part II. Empirical Research -- 7. Methodological Research Design -- 7.1. Data Collection -- 7.2. Data Processing -- 7.3. Data Evaluation -- 7.3.1. Procedure of Qualitative Content Analysis according to Mayring -- 7.3.2. Grounded Theory -- 7.4. Access to Interview Partners -- 7.5. Comment on Situation and Course of the Interviews -- 8. Analysis of the Interviews -- 8.1. Causes of Migration -- 8.1.1. Migrant Types -- 8.1.1.1. Traditional, Rational Migrant Worker
• 8.1.1.1. Naively Optimistic Migrant in Search of Independence and Autonomy -- 8.1.1.2. Forced Migrant -- 8.1.1.4. Family Migrant -- 8.1.2. Networks -- 8.2. Work in the USA -- 8.2.1. Finding Work -- 8.2.2. Respect for the Law -- 8.2.3. Taxes -- 8.2.4. Interdependence of Industry and Workforce -- 8.3. Organization -- 8.3.1. Garment Worker Center -- 8.3.1.1. Significance of the GWC for the Workers -- 8.3.1.2. Stigma of a Victim? -- 8.4. Mobility -- 8.5. Integration Tendencies -- 9. Ideas for A Solution to the Migration 'Problem' -- Part III. Documents -- Interview Guideline (English/Spanish) -- Examples of Applying the Coding Paradigm According to Strauss -- Categories Formed While Analyzing the Interviews -- Transcription of Interviews -- Transcription System -- Estela -- Mirna -- Maura -- Silvia -- Jenny -- Olivia -- Victoria -- Augustina -- Miguel -- Appendix 1. Figures and Tables -- Appendix 2. Overview of significant Migration Laws in the USA (1881-2004) -- Appendix 3. Overview of the Development of the INS/BCIS.

ISBN

3825883973 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 70063654
• SCSB-10882275

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library