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Race and the invisible hand : how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobs /
From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test--and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Invisible and visible hands : racial disparity in the labor market
- From school to work in black and white : a case study
- Getting a job, not getting a job : employment divergence begins
- Evaluating market explanations : "the declining significance of race" and "racial deficits" approaches
- Embedded transitions : school ties and the unanticipated significance of race
- Networks of inclusion, networks of exclusion : the production and maintenance of segregated opportunity structures
- White privilege and black accommodation : where past and contemporary discrimination converge to produce durable inequality.