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Negroes and Jobs
A Book of Readings
Edited by Louis A. Ferman, Joyce L. Kornbluh and J.A. Miller
University of Michigan Press, 1968
The development of Negro job opportunities is a vital first step toward the total integration of the Negro into American society. The civil rights movement and the War on Poverty have focused national attention on the Negro employment problem, but much remains to be done before a solution is reached. Negroes and Jobs gives a thorough, well-rounded account of the Negro worker's economic position in the contemporary labor market. It is a compendium of more than thirty articles, all written since 1960, dealing with various aspects of Negro employment. Many of the Negro's employment problems are common to all underprivileged American citizens, but certain aspects of the dilemma, such as the development of the urban ghettos and the persistence of racial discrimination, serve to separate and intensify the plight of the Negro worker. This book discusses the causes of Negro job disadvantagement, the nature of the Negro job market and the factors that affect it, the behavior of Negroes in the labor market, and past and future programs of action to increase the Negro's access to job opportunities.
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The Newcomers
Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis
Oscar Handlin
Harvard University Press
Within a historical context Oscar Handlin tells the story of the Negroes and Puertos Ricans in the New York area. Concentrating on the human factors involved, he contrasts their experience to that of other white immigrants.
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