Bad attitudes and good soldiers: Soft skills as a code for tractability in the hiring of immigrant latina/os over native blacks in the hotel industry

Social Problems

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 573-589

  Zamudio, Margaret M ^a   Lichter, Michael I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Employer discrimination; Hotel industry; Immigrant Latino and native black workers; Race; Soft skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549104413     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2008.55.4.573     Document Type: Article

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