The rise and fall of a micro-learning region: Mexican immigrants and construction in center-south Philadelphia

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1595-1612

  Iskander, Natasha ^a   Lowe, Nichola ^b   Riordan, Christine ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c National Employment Law Project   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING MARKET; HOUSING PROJECT; IMMIGRANT; KNOWLEDGE; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; LEARNING; SKILLED LABOR; WORKPLACE;

PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956081184     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a42475     Document Type: Article

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