essay
Manos que sobran: work, migration and the Puerto Rican in the 1990's
Commuter nation : perspectives on Puerto Rican migration • Río Piedras, P. R. • Published In 1994 • Pages: 115-149
By: Bonilla, Frank.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this document Bonilla sketches the main parameters of an ongoing transition to a service based economy both in Puerto Rico and New York City with a particular focus on its impact on employment and unemployment as it bears on Puerto Ricans along with the implications of this process for migration trends. In addition the author presents a summary critique of employment generating strategies being endorsed from various quarters in the United States and Puerto Rico as part of programs of 'reindustrialization' or 'recomposition' of capital accumulation in the wake of sharp declines in industrial production. He then attempts to tie the above together by presenting a research agenda so that actions intended to break the long standing cycle of repeated uprooting, joblessness, and poverty may find more realistic grounding (p. 117). Although much of this study deals with theoretical constructs, and with the island rather than the mainland Puerto Ricans, there is some information on demography and employment in New York City and the United States for the period of the 1960s-1980s which makes this a useful source of information for the researcher.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Population
- Composition of population
- History and culture change
- Labor supply and employment
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Puerto Ricans (Mainland)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970s-1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Frank Bonilla
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-149)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91027083
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--United States