Missing the connection: Social isolation and employment on the Brooklyn Waterfront

Social Problems

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 180-196

  Kasinitz, Philip ^a   Rosenberg, Jan ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0039561917     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3096997     Document Type: Article

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