The manufacturing of job displacement how racial capitalism drives immigrant and gender inequality in the labor market. / Laura Lopez-Sanders
López-Sanders, Laura.
2024
HD4903.5.U58 L67 2024
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Title The manufacturing of job displacement how racial capitalism drives immigrant and gender inequality in the labor market. / Laura Lopez-Sanders
Author López-Sanders, Laura.
ISBN 1479823058
9781479823055 (electronic bk.)
Imprint New York : New York University Press, 2024.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (305 p.)
Call Number HD4903.5.U58 L67 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.13/30973 OCoLC
Summary The employer-driven push to systematically replace Black workers with unauthorized immigrantsIn The Manufacturing of Job Displacement, Laura López-Sanders argues that the walls of American businesses hide a system of illegal practices and behaviors that lead to racial inequality in the labor market. Drawing on extensive research in South Carolina manufacturing facilities, nearly 300 interviews, and her own experience working at both the "bottom" of the labor market (e.g., cleaning toilets and on assembly-line jobs) and in mid-level supervisory positions, López-Sanders provides a behind-the-scenes accounting of daily factory life.She uncovers preferential hiring practices that fly in the face of civil rights legislation barring employment discrimination, including orchestrated actions of employers to systematically replace Black workers with Hispanic unauthorized immigrants. López-Sanders argues against the predominant view that worker displacement occurs primarily because of hiring biases or social networks. Instead, she shows that employers intervene strategically, relying on subcontractors, agencies, and intermediaries to shift the race and gender in an organization. They also use vulnerable and tractable immigrant labor to impose and justify untenable standards that drive native-born workers out of their jobs and create vacancies to be filled by additional immigrant workers. The Manufacturing of Job Displacement sheds new light on a classic question about ethnic succession and segmentation in the labor market and reorients the ongoing debates about the economic impact of immigration.
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Intro
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
1. Racialized Hiring
2. Enlisting Subcontractors and Intermediaries
3. Creating Job Vacancies
4. Shifting the Labor Queue by Race and Gender
5. Show Me Your Papers!
6. Racialized Shocks and Out-Group Boundaries
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Timeline
Methods Appendix
Notes
References
Index
About the Author

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