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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Day labor"”.
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Labor Heights Plaza: Place for an Emergent Public
Day laborers are a visible indication of an increasingly problematic immigration policy in the U.S. Their presence in area parking lots has agitated local residents, who demand action by municipalities. This thesis explores the issue of day labor waiting sites in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. …
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A Fair Day's Wages: Liberty, Legality, and Liability Among Denver's Day Laborers
<p>Day laborers occupy an essential position in Denver’s booming construction industry. Day laborers make up a highly flexible, highly effective workforce able to respond to market changes. For day laborers, informal day-labor gathering points provide increased control over working hours and …
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Coping Behaviors of Day Laborers in San Mateo, California
… research existed on the coping behaviors of day laborers. To bolster the research in this area, my study explored the coping behaviors of day laborers. My participants were 12 Latin American day laborers from Guatemala and Mexico who, at the time of the study, lived in San Mateo, California. …
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"We cleared the land with our own hands": space and place in African American community building and freedom struggles in the Missouri Bootheel, 1890-1968"
… agents in this transformation through their labor in the forests and fields, their planning visions, politics and their influence on the built environment through institution, neighborhood and town-building. White supremacy was embedded in the region’s social and economic fabric, but its …
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Latino Migrant Labor Strife and Solidarity in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 2005-2007
… rebuilding model that respected immigrant labor rights.