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brown-collar jobs  

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  • Latino immigrants are increasingly overrepresented in a particular set of low-wage jobs in the United States. Brown-collar jobs is the term introduced by Lisa Catanzarite to capture the concept of segregation in these jobs and to elucidate their associated structural disadvantages. [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; Brown-Collar Jobs]

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