Format:
1 online resource (198 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780815328445
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9780203011553
Series Statement:
Contemporary Urban Affairs Series
Content:
This title is a study of wage and employment differences between blacks and whites in an urban economy. The book presents the results of a Detroit-based research endeavor to understand the role of employer practices, geography, job skills and the characteristics of workers in explaining economic disparities between black and white workers
Note:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Study Rationale and Methodology -- THE AUTO PARTS SUPPLY INDUSTRY IN THE CITY OF DETROIT -- RELATION OF THIS STUDY TO THE WORK OF OTHER SIMILAR RESEARCH PROJECTS -- SAMPLE SELECTION -- Number of Firms and Interviews -- THE SURVEY INSTRUMENT AND THE INTERVIEW PROCESS -- ANALYSIS -- Using the Case-Match Format -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 Racial Segregation in the Detroit Metropolitan Area -- CHAPTER 3 Employer Location Decisions -- WHITE-OWNED DETROIT FIRMS: RATIONALE FOR THEIR CURRENT LOCATION -- DIRTY INDUSTRIES (TOXIC MATERIALS AND PROCESSES) -- HISTORY AND TRADITION -- WHITE-OWNED FIRMS: CONCERNS ABOUT IMAGE AND SAFETY -- BLACK-OWNED FIRMS -- A Commitment to the City of Detroit and its People -- Opportunities for Black Entrepreneurship: Decreased Land and Operating Costs -- What Respondents in Black-Owned Firms Think about Detroit -- esire to Leave Detroit ... -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 Examining Wage Differences Between Black- and White-owned Firms -- A SHIFT FROM MANUFACTURING TO SERVICE JOBS -- TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES -- INCREASING RETURNS TO SKILL -- WAGES AND WORK EFFORT: EMPLOYMENT TRENDS AND DIFFERENTIALS -- How These Trends May Affect Black/White Economic Differentials -- STUDY FINDINGS: WAGES AND RACE IN DETROIT -- WHY WAGES MAY BE LOWER IN BLACK-OWNED FIRMS AND IN FIRMS THAT EMPLOY A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF BLACK WORKERS -- A Situation of Unequal Competition Among Black-Owned Firms -- The Context of Lower Wages in the City of Detroit -- A Surplus of African-American Workers in the City of Detroit and a Shortage of Jobs -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 Wages and Space -- SPATIAL MISMATCH THEORY -- Findings of Early Studies -- Later Findings -- Interview studies -- Employment Audit Studies
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Conclusion: The Literature -- Employer Interview Findings: Spatial Factors -- Respondents' Perceptions about the Treatment of African Americans in Detroit's Suburbs -- White Employer's Stories about Discrimination in the Suburbs of Detroit -- TRANSPORTATION OBSTACLES -- The Increased Cost of Car Ownership -- Poor Public Transportation Options -- Employer Views about Public Transportation -- SUBURBAN EMPLOYERS, TRANSPORTATION, AND DISCRIMINATORY HIRING PRACTICES -- A COMPARISON OF HIRING AND RECRUITMENT METHODS OF SIX CASE-MATCHED SUBURBAN FIRMS -- Mash Incorporated and Twain Industries -- Mushroom Plastics and Elizabeth Plastic Products -- Janis Snap and Tool and Lionel Plastics -- MCSUI CASE STUDIES -- A BIG THREE AUTO MANUFACTURING FACILITY -- The Firm in Its Setting: Warren -- Black and White Workers Compared -- Relationships Between Black and White Employees -- Wages, Skills, and Worker Attitudes -- A PUBLIC UTILITY: DETROIT GAS -- The Firm in its Setting: Royal Oak -- A 25 Percent Minority Workforce -- Racial Relations Among Workers -- Recruitment and Minority Worker Representation -- Maintaining an Integrated Workforce -- A MAJOR NATIONAL RETAILER: HAMMERS AND CROCKETT DEPARTMENT STORE -- The Firms in Their Settings: Waterford and Livonia -- Hammers and Crockett: Waterford -- Hammers and Crockett: Livonia -- SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT MANDATED SUBURBAN INTEGRATION -- Varying Employer Attitudes -- Affirmative Action and the Persistence of Occupational Segregation -- CONCLUSION: RACE AND SPACE -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 Race and Skills -- THE PROBLEM AS STATED IN THE LITERATURE: A SKILLS MISMATCH -- Demand-side Skill Changes: Are Skill Needs Increasing? -- INTERVIEW FINDINGS ABOUT CHANGING SKILL REQUIREMENTS FOR ENTRY-LEVEL MANUFACTURING JOBS -- The Inclusion of Floor Supervisors into the Interview Process
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INTERVIEW FINDINGS: SPECIFIED SKILL CHANGES IN STUDIED FIRMS -- Fewer Firms Report Changing Skill Requirements than Found in Previous Survey Efforts -- A Note About SPC and Other Quality Processes -- TELLITE FASTENERS, AND MORGAN STAMPING ... -- EMPLOYER PERCEPTIONS OF RACIAL AND/OR LOCATIONALLY-BASED SKILL DIFFERENCES AMONG WORKERS -- Racial Differences -- Spatial Differences -- PERCEIVED RACIAL DIFFERENCES -- Black Respondents -- White Respondents -- PERCEIVED LOCATIONAL DIFFERENCES -- Black-owned Firms -- White Respondents -- Conclusion: Perceived Racial and Locational Skill Differences between Blacks and Whites -- LACKAWANNA CHEMICAL AND CANNON CHEMICAL, JANIS AND LIONEL, MUSHROOM PLASTICS AND ELIZABETH PLASTIC PRODUCTS -- Lackawanna Chemical and Cannon Chemical -- Janis and Lionel -- Elizabeth Plastic Products and Mushroom Plastics -- Summary: Three High-paying Firms and Their Low-paying Matches -- CONCLUSION: RACE, LOCATION, AND SKILLS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 The Persistence of Discrimination and Policy Recommendations -- EXISTING ANTIDISCRIMINATION POLICY AND ITS LIMITATIONS -- AN AUDIT METHODOLOGY TO ADDRESS HIRING DISCRIMINATION -- SKILLS -- EDUCATING EMPLOYERS -- NOTES -- APPENDIX A Sample Job Wages and Benefits -- APPENDIX B Perceived Skill Differences Between Black and White and City and Suburban Workers -- APPENDIX C Sample Job and Worker Skill Characteristics -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Turner Meiklejohn, Susan Wages, Race, Skills and Space Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2000 ISBN 9780815328445
Language:
English
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