Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nissen, Bruce
• Russo, Monica
• Lowell Turner
• Daniel B. Cornfield
• Cornfield, Daniel B
• Turner, Lowell

Titel

STRATEGIES FOR LABOR REVITALIZATION: The Case of Miami

Ist Teil von

• Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds, 2018, p.147-162

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Miami is a “frontier city;” a large urban global city with important financial and service sectors. Known as the “gateway to Latin America;” its banking, investment, and trade ties with Latin American and the Caribbean are the strongest of any U.S. city. Its large immigrant population works in the service economy, which is growing from tourism and economic ties with Latin America. “Greater Miami” is Miami-Dade County, about six times as large as the city itself (2.2 million in habitants in 2000, compared to the city’s 362,000)—it contains over twenty cities. City and county economies are not easily separated;