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Title: Organize to Improve the Quality of Jobs in the Black Community. A Report on Jobs and Activism in the African American Community

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: The typical presentation of the problem around work in the Black community is that there is an unemployment crisis. An equally important crisis facing the Black community is the crisis of bad jobs: jobs that pay poorly; jobs with few benefits; jobs that offer no protection from employer harassment; jobs whose only future is a dead-end. During the expansion of the 1990s, the U.S. economy generated a large number of these bad jobs. At the same time, persons of color received a disproportionate number of the bad jobs. Hence, the expansion of the 1990s could be characterized as a racially polarized job expansion. By 2000, many of the occupations, where a significant number of African Americans maintained employment, paid wages that made it difficult to sustain a family....

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Authors: Pitts, Steven C.

Publisher: UC Berkeley Labor Center

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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