Mass immigration and the national interest /

Of quality labor. Yet immigration has led to a majority of new workers seeking unskilled jobs in declining sectors in manufacturing and services and has given rebirth to sweatshop enterprises and child labor law violations. For the first time in U.S. history, the author argues, the results of immigr...

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Main Author: Briggs, Vernon M
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1992
Armonk, N.Y. : [1992], ©1992
Armonk, N.Y. : c1992
Armonk, N.Y. : ©1992
Armonk, N.Y. : [1992]
Series:Labor and human resources series
Labor and human resources series
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505 0 |a 1. A Brief Perspective -- 2. Immigration Policy: A Determinant of Economic Phenomena -- 3. Creating a Nonagricultural Labor Force: The Original Role of Mass Immigration -- 4. Reprieve: The Cessation of Mass Immigration -- 5. The Redesign of Immigration Policy in the 1960s: Replacing Social Goals With Political Goals -- 6. Unexpected Consequences: The Revival of Mass Immigration -- 7. Oversight: The Economic and Social Transformation of the U.S. Labor Market -- 8. The National Interest: Synchronization of Immigration Policy with Economic Circumstances -- Appendix A: The Preference System Created Under the Immigration Act of 1965 (in effect until 1980) -- Appendix B: The Legal Immigration System and Its Preference Allocations That Were in Effect from 1980 to 1991 -- Appendix C: The Thirty-Four Countries Whose Nationals Are Eligible for the Transitional Program for Diversity Immigrants, 1992-1994 
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