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Article: Inequality at Work: Hispanics in the U.S. Labor Force.(Brief Article)
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- Industrial and Labor Relations Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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By Gregory DeFreitas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi, 284 pp. ISBN 0-19-506421-6. $35.00.
This interesting book synthesizes and summarizes the growing empirical literature on the economic status of persons of Hispanic ancestry in the United States. In a sense, the topic of the book is the result of ad-hoc (and, in my view, ill-advised) decisions by U.S. public policy makers to lump all persons of Spanish-speaking ancestry into a new minority group and label them "Hispanics." The fact is, no such classification exists outside the United States. Economic and cultural differences among Spanish-speaking countries are as varied as among ...