Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs

Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs
ISBN-10
0520239512
ISBN-13
9780520239517
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
226
Language
English
Published
2003-10-02
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Deirdre A. Royster

Description

Prominent figures from Booker T. Washington to William Julius Wilson have dispensed the same advice to young black men: 'Get a trade'. This text puts such folk wisdom to an empirical test and exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favours the white job seeker over the black.

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