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The importance of retail as an employment sector for young adults in

New York City is evident not only from anecdotal accounts of shopping in Manhattans midtown mall but from the Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York Studys data, which show retail to be an employment sector in which all ethnic groups participate to some extent. This is the thesis for this entry. To me it clearly states that he is looking at the employees of the stores in New York City. The author chose not only a small group of employed people in one store, but all the employees in Manhattan. This statement shows what group she is focused on and it is in the first paragraph. 2. She approaches the class and race of the group in many angle because it is New York City. There are so many different races in different classes that it would make her argument false if she tried and made assumptions about the larger group. This way she can separate each race into multiple classes to make documenting and explaining what she is talking about clearer. 3. I think that the focuses of this paper are immigrants, labor, and the economy and how the all fit together, It shows how different immigrant come into the city from different backgrounds and are able to get certain jobs based on class. Also how different types of people compete with one another for the same job, or how they work together with different races to get a job done. 4.What I like is that she talks about a subject but then has data that shows the results that she got. I think that is easier to understand than how most types of ethnographies have completely separate data sections. The way she has this laid out it is clearer and easier to read. Questions 1. What type of ethnography is this? 2. What is her main argument 3. Could there be a different way to lay this out?