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Hmong in the workplace
Hmong in the West : observations and reports • Minneapolis, Minn. • Published In 1982 • Pages: 387-401
By: Hendricks, Glenn L., Richardson, Brad.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
One of the most important factors in the resettlement of Hmong refugees in the United States is employment. Because of their general lack of skills, including English, and unfamiliarity with American cultural patterns relevant to work and the work place, this has been a difficult task. Several approaches have been taken to ease the employment crisis for the Hmong such as formal vocational training, employment placement through state and local welfare units, special public and private task force employment projects focused on the refugees, and probably, most effective of all, highly informal sponsor-initiated job seeking. In the summer of 1981 a study was undertaken to examine local employment needs and employer experience with Hmong workers. The results of this study make up the major portion of this source. Given particular attention in this paper is the employer's perception of the Hmong's attitudes toward work and the workplace, and communication problems between worker and employer.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Interviewing in research
- Labor and leisure
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- North American Hmong
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Educator
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1981
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Minnesota, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Glenn L. Hendricks and Brad Richardson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-401)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hmong Americans