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 | Maloney, Thomas N. | Degrees of inequality: the advance of black male workers in the northern meat packing and steel industries before World War II | Recent major works on long-term racial inequality in the labor market revolve around competing hypotheses concerning the importance of human capital factors (Smith and Welch 1989) and government policy (Donohue and Heckman 1991) in promoting black advance. There is however, another line or thinking ... | Labor markets; Northern employers; racial inequality | 1995 |
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 | Maloney, Thomas N. | Making the effort: the racial contours of Detroit's labor markets, 1920-1940 | In 1940 the Ford Motor Company employed half of the black men in Detroit but only 14 percent of the whites. The authors postulate that black Detroiters were concentrated at Ford because they were excluded from working elsewhere. Those most affected were young married black men. A Ford job was vir... | Automotive workers - Black people; Ford Motor Company | 1995 |
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