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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Minority Gains in New York Construction Jobs
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Jobs and Housing
Author: National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing
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Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Registry of Minority Construction Contractors: Massachusetts, New York
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Equal Opportunity
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Hispanic Immigrants in the Construction Industry, New York City 1960-1982
Author: Diana Balmori
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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A Decade of New Opportunity
Author: Herbert Hammerman
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Hometown Plans for the Construction Industry in New York State
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights. New York State Advisory Committee
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Category : Construction workers
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Category : Construction workers
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Still the Promised City?
Author: Roger David Waldinger
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Still the Promised City? addresses the question of why African-Americans have fared so poorly in securing unskilled jobs in the postwar era and why new immigrants have done so well. Does the increase in immigration bear some responsibility for the failure of more blacks to rise, for their disappearance from many occupations, and for their failure to establish a presence in business? The two most popular explanations for the condition of blacks invoke the decline of manufacturing in New York and other major American cities: one claims that this decline has closed off job opportunities for blacks that were available for earlier immigrants who lacked skills and education; the other emphasizes "globalization"--the movement of manufacturing jobs offshore to areas with lower labor costs. But Roger Waldinger shows that these explanations do not fit the facts. Instead, he points out that a previously overlooked factor--population change--and the rapid exodus of white New Yorkers created vacancies for minority workers up and down the job ladder. Ethnic succession generated openings both in declining industries, where the outward seepage of whites outpaced the rate of job erosion, and in growth industries, where whites poured out of bottom-level positions even as demand for low-level workers increased. But this process yielded few dividends for blacks, who saw their share of the many low-skilled jobs steadily decline. Instead, advantage went to the immigrants, who exploited these opportunities by expanding their economic base. Waldinger explains these disturbing facts by viewing employment as a queuing process, with the good jobs at the top of the job ladder and the poor ones at the bottom. As economic growth pulls the topmost ethnic group up the ladder, lower-ranking groups seize the chance to fill the niches left vacant. Immigrants, remembering conditions in the societies they just left, are eager to take up the lower-level jobs that natives will no longer do. By contrast, African-Americans, who came to the city a generation ago, have job aspirations similar to those of whites. But the niches they have carved out, primarily in the public sector, require skills that the least educated members of their community do not have. Black networks no longer provide connections to the lower-level jobs, and relative to the newcomers, employers find unskilled blacks to be much less satisfactory recruits. The result is that a certain number of well-educated blacks have good middle-class jobs, but many of the less educated have fallen back into an underclass. Grim as this analysis is, it points to a deeper understanding of America's most serious social problem and offers fresh approaches to attacking it.
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Still the Promised City? addresses the question of why African-Americans have fared so poorly in securing unskilled jobs in the postwar era and why new immigrants have done so well. Does the increase in immigration bear some responsibility for the failure of more blacks to rise, for their disappearance from many occupations, and for their failure to establish a presence in business? The two most popular explanations for the condition of blacks invoke the decline of manufacturing in New York and other major American cities: one claims that this decline has closed off job opportunities for blacks that were available for earlier immigrants who lacked skills and education; the other emphasizes "globalization"--the movement of manufacturing jobs offshore to areas with lower labor costs. But Roger Waldinger shows that these explanations do not fit the facts. Instead, he points out that a previously overlooked factor--population change--and the rapid exodus of white New Yorkers created vacancies for minority workers up and down the job ladder. Ethnic succession generated openings both in declining industries, where the outward seepage of whites outpaced the rate of job erosion, and in growth industries, where whites poured out of bottom-level positions even as demand for low-level workers increased. But this process yielded few dividends for blacks, who saw their share of the many low-skilled jobs steadily decline. Instead, advantage went to the immigrants, who exploited these opportunities by expanding their economic base. Waldinger explains these disturbing facts by viewing employment as a queuing process, with the good jobs at the top of the job ladder and the poor ones at the bottom. As economic growth pulls the topmost ethnic group up the ladder, lower-ranking groups seize the chance to fill the niches left vacant. Immigrants, remembering conditions in the societies they just left, are eager to take up the lower-level jobs that natives will no longer do. By contrast, African-Americans, who came to the city a generation ago, have job aspirations similar to those of whites. But the niches they have carved out, primarily in the public sector, require skills that the least educated members of their community do not have. Black networks no longer provide connections to the lower-level jobs, and relative to the newcomers, employers find unskilled blacks to be much less satisfactory recruits. The result is that a certain number of well-educated blacks have good middle-class jobs, but many of the less educated have fallen back into an underclass. Grim as this analysis is, it points to a deeper understanding of America's most serious social problem and offers fresh approaches to attacking it.
Construction Labor Report
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Category : Building trades
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Category : Building trades
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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The Economics of the Construction Industry
Author: Gerald Finkel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317457285
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The American construction industry, reponsible for nearly 4% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, directly employs over five million people and provides millions of additional support jobs in related fields. This book provides an introductory overview of the economic aspects of the industry, including the historical development of building activity from earliest times to modern day market-based construction, including the work of individual artisans to complex construction unions. The book explores current trends in labor force participation; the measurement of industry performance; the determinants of investment; government involvement; competition; wage determination; training; and worker safety.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317457285
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The American construction industry, reponsible for nearly 4% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, directly employs over five million people and provides millions of additional support jobs in related fields. This book provides an introductory overview of the economic aspects of the industry, including the historical development of building activity from earliest times to modern day market-based construction, including the work of individual artisans to complex construction unions. The book explores current trends in labor force participation; the measurement of industry performance; the determinants of investment; government involvement; competition; wage determination; training; and worker safety.
Jobs and Housing
Author: National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing
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Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Publisher:
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Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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