the study seeks to determine whether hispanic undocumented workers are occupying jobs in the garment industry in los angeles county that might otherwise be held by unemployed black and hispanic u.s citizens and legal immigrants. the data gathered suggest that the majority of the garment workers in los angeles are hispanic undocumented and that the prevailing wage level for sewing machine operative jobs, the main production job in the industry, is the minimum wage or below. the data also indicate that very few unemployed blacks and hispanics would be willing to work as sewing machine operatives at the prevailing wage level, and that employers prefer to hire hispanics over blacks as sewing machine operators thus, data from the supply as well as the demand sides of the labor market indicate that there is very little displacement of unemployed blacks and hispanics by hispanic undocumented workers at prevailing wages. the authors were unable to obtain sufficient empirical data on which to reach conclusions about the extent of indirect displacement--that is, displacement that may be occurring if the presence of the undocumented depresses wages and thus makes these jobs unattractive to unemployed blacks and hispanics who otherwise would accept them