ERIC Number: ED081924
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1972-Jun
Pages: 169
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Unemployment among Black Teenage Females in Urban Poverty Neighborhoods.
Wallace, Phyllis A.
The peer group network for black teenage females (16-19 years of age) from low income families serves as the powerful interactive mechanism to enable these young women to develop job orientation for themselves and others. Through a group process simulation and guidance model steps can be taken to enter and to remain in the labor market. In New York City and other metropolitan labor markets most delivery systems (educational, social services, manpower programs, and vocational guidance) are not responsive to the needs of low income black youth. Employment hardships experienced by many low income blacks mean marginal existence for their families. Many of these parents and guardians have difficulty in presenting enviable images of working adults. (NTIS)
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Problems, Females, Ghettos, Labor Market, Models, Peer Acceptance, Peer Groups, Racial Discrimination, Unemployment, Urban Environment, Work Experience
National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va. 22151 (PB-210 210, MF $1.45, HC $3.00)
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Sponsor: Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Research and Development.
Authoring Institution: Metropolitan Applied Research Center, Inc., New York, NY.
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