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Author Meiklejohn, Susan Turner, author.

Title Wages, race, skills and space : lessons from employers in Detroit's auto industry / Susan Turner Meiklejohn.

Publication Info. New York : Garland Pub., 2000.
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 185 pages).
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Series Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1170. Contemporary urban affairs ; v. 5
Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1170.
Garland reference library of social science. Contemporary urban affairs ; v. 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index.
Contents Study Rationale and Methodology -- Racial Segregation in the Detroit Metropolitan Area: A Long-Lived and Persistent Phenomenon -- Employer Location Decisions: Detroit's Image and Actuality -- Examining Wage Differences Between Black- and White-owned Firms -- Wages and Space -- Race and Skills: The Role of Perceived Skill Differences in the Lower Wages of African-American Workers -- Persistence of Discrimination and Policy Recommendations.
Summary This book describes findings of a survey-based qualitative research study conducted among Detroit employers in the auto industry to evaluate explanations for why blacks are no longer catching up with whites in terms of income and employment.
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Subject Discrimination in employment -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Discrimination in employment.
Michigan -- Detroit.
African American automobile industry workers -- Michigan -- Detroit.
African American automobile industry workers.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Meiklejohn, Susan Turner. Wages, race, skills and space. New York : Garland Pub., 2000 (DLC) 99051638
ISBN 0815328443 (Cloth)
9780815328445 (Cloth)
0203011554 (electronic book)
9780203011553 (electronic book)

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