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Back to the Sweatshop or Ahead to the Informal Sector?*

1993; Wiley; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1468-2427.1993.tb00209.x

1468-2427

Roger Waldinger, Michael Lapp,

Migration and Labor Dynamics

International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchVolume 17, Issue 1 p. 6-29 Back to the Sweatshop or Ahead to the Informal Sector?* ROGER WALDINGER, ROGER WALDINGER Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USASearch for more papers by this authorMICHAEL LAPP, MICHAEL LAPP Department of History, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, USASearch for more papers by this author ROGER WALDINGER, ROGER WALDINGER Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USASearch for more papers by this authorMICHAEL LAPP, MICHAEL LAPP Department of History, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, USASearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1993 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.1993.tb00209.xCitations: 33 * The first author gratefully acknowledges funding from the Division of Immigration Policy and Research, US Department of Labor, the Ford Foundation and the Robert F. Wagner, Sr, Institute at the CUNY Graduate School. Earlier versions were presented at the Seminar on Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Informal Economy, Johns Hopkins University, November 1989 and the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 1989. We wish to thank Thomas Bailey, Lauren Benton, Alejandro Portes, Marta Tienda, Meg Weaver and Sharon Zukin for their helpful, but highly critical, comments. Needless to say, the views expressed herein are those of the authors alone. Please address all correspondence to the first author at: Department of Sociology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024. 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