Networks of exploitation: Immigrant labor and the restructuring of the Los Angeles janitorial industry

Social Problems

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 379-397

  Cranford, Cynthia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 24144503776     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2005.52.3.379     Document Type: Review

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