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  title info:
    title: Poverty, development, and quality of life in a Texas border city
  name:
    name part: Miller, Michael Victor
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Christian, Chester
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Copp, Jim
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Kuvlesky, Bill
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Picou, Steve
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Robeck, Bruce W.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1981
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 370 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: Although traditionally characterized by poverty and economic stagnation, the Texas border region has become one of the nation's fastest growing areas. This case study, based on Brownsville, examines community conditions as objectively and subjectively experienced phenomena in light of major growth-generated changes transpiring over the 1970s. What impact did growth have on the city and on particular institutional areas, and how did various local sub-populations fare during this period are general questions addressed. Findings (based on data derived through a multi-methodological approach) show that despite significant economic growth, the city continued to rank low in terms of relevant indicators of human well-being. Industrial development generally promoted the expansion of minimum-wage jobs, while unemployment and job insecurity remained high due to overall population growth and the labor-force involvement of Mexican commuters. Although aggregate income in the city jumped, poverty persisted as a dominant feature, befalling almost half of the large Mexican-American population. For the poor, schooling, housing, and health status were still exceptionally problematic, and in some respects, may have worsened during the decade. In general, growth exacerbated various infrastructural and public-service problems. In-migrants from elsewhere in the U.S. (particulary Anglo Americans) typically entered higher-status, better-paying jobs and were found to be the primary beneficiaries of income, and related resource, improvement trends. ...
  note: "Major subject: Sociology."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Philosophy Texas A & M University 1981
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 356-369).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Brownsville
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Brownsville
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Brownsville (Tex.)
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Brownsville (Tex.)
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Brownsville
  classification: HC108.B76 M5
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-90840
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    location:
      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-90840
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 820730
    record change date: 20220104090815.0
    record identifier: in00000081355
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng