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Title: Did Manufacturing Matter?

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Publication Year: 2003

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Abstract: Research on the "new second generation" takes the success of the earlier second generation of southern and eastern Europeans as its point departure, but with little empirical basis. The hypothesis of "segmented assimilation" asserts that the children of 1880-1920 immigration moved ahead due to the availability of well-paying, relatively low-skilled jobs in manufacturing. By contrast, defenders of the conventional approach to assimilation accent diffusionary processes, while conceding that the specific means by which the children of immigrants improved on their parents' condition remains a matter about which little is known. This paper returns to the world for the last second generation, just before it disappeared, to inquire into the extent and nature of the economic differences separating the adult immigrant offspring of the time from their 3rd generation-plus counterparts. Using data from the 1970 Census of Population, the paper shows that manufacturing mattered, but in ways neither expected nor consistent with either of today's prevailing, theoretical approaches.

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Authors: Waldinger, Roger D.

Publisher: Department of Sociology, UCLA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration

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