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Title: Discouraging Times: The Labor Force Participation of Married Black Women, 1930-1940

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: The extraordinary unemployment rates of black women during the Great Depression caused a sizeable number to leave the labor farce as "discouraged workers." Consequently, while married white women entered the labor force in increasing numbers, the participation rate of married black women stagnated. The higher unemployment of black women was not primarily a function of their occupational or industrial distribution, but reflected unequal treatment within markets. This article adds support to the view of black economic progress as episodic in nature, with the Depression as a period of relative retrenchment for African Americans. (C) 2001 Academic Press.

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Authors: Sundstrom, William A.

Conference Name: Conference on One Kind of Freedom reconsidered - African-American Economic Life in the Segregation Era

Publisher Location: Bethlehem, PA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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