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Peer reviewedGreen, Dan S.; Smith, Earl – Phylon, 1983
Summarizes and analyzes W.E.B. DuBois's publications on race and class, particularly as he observed the relationships between White and Black Americans from about 1890 to the 1960s. Contends that DuBois's work has been seriously underrated and cites William J. Wilson's work as corroborating and extending DuBois's theories. (CJM)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black History, Capitalism, Ethnography
Peer reviewedDarity, William A., Jr.; Myers, Samuel, Jr. – Urban League Review, 1980
Examines economist Finis Welch's hypothesis that the observed convergence in earnings between Blacks and Whites is due primarily to similar productivity characteristics between young Black and White workers. Argues that although among employed Black and White youths earnings may be similar, data on higher joblessness among Blacks overturn the…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Education, Black Employment, Black Youth
Download full textCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC. – 1992
An analysis was done of recently released 1990 Census data on wage levels for full-time workers. The analysis found that the proportion of full-time, year-round workers who are paid low wages jumped between 1979 and 1990. In 1979, 12.1 percent of full-time, year-round workers were paid low wages, but 18 percent were paid low wages in 1990. Low…
Descriptors: Blacks, Census Figures, Employment Patterns, Hispanic Americans
Wood, Amy – Southern Changes, 1998
Affirmative action is a necessary and effective strategy to end racial and gender inequalities. While moral and historical defenses of affirmative action have merit, economic reasoning is a more potent argument. Analysis of the economic costs and benefits of affirmative action in higher education illustrate its effectiveness in reducing income…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, College Graduates, College Outcomes Assessment
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald – 1993
This book proposes that job-level segregation by sex and race is a fundamentally important source of black-white and male-female inequalities in employment. Drawing on the North Carolina Employment and Health Survey, the first general population survey that measures the gender and racial compositions of jobs, the book explores this thesis in the…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Comparable Worth, Educational Status Comparison
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
The National Commission for Employment Policy has examined ways that the United States federal government could improve the economic situation of disadvantaged women. In particular, the Commission examined, during 1980, the role of education and employment and training programs in helping women to prepare for better paying occupations, and then…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adults, Apprenticeships, Blacks
