Who Gets the Good Jobs?: Combating Race and Gender Disparities
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (849 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813529212 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cherry surveys the political and economic forces that influenced labor market practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the employment barriers African Americans, women, and immigrants encountered. Even Alan Greenspan has urged firms to eliminate the "distortions that arise as a result of discrimination." The political agenda regarding this issue is polarized. government offered $508 million to settle more than one thousand lawsuits brought against the federally funded Voice of America by female workers. From the Back Cover Racial and gen
. Robert Cherry is Brueklundian Professor in the Department of Economics at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and author of many books, including Who Gets the Good Jobs: Combating Race and Gender Disparities and Welfare Transformed: Universalizing Family Policies that Work
Accessible, informative and well-documented - excellent. It's a pity the title suggests a self-help book on tacking the job market. _Who Gets the Good Jobs_ is a very readable, well-documented discussion of what we all know--that discrimination in employment is alive and well, and that neither conservative denial nor orthodox leftist ideologies, will remedy it.. This is the review I wrote for Choice (the ALA's mag): Cherry proposes a middle ground between the view that capitalism reduces discriminatory practices and the position that capitalism benefits from, or at least can coexist with, discriminatory practices. He stresses the relevance of both theory and historical context for comprehending current levels and patterns of race and gender discrimination. After considering how the profit motive may discipline owners to be nondiscriminatory, Cherry discusses a number o. Mary King said Well researched, thoughtful and important. Robert Cherry has written an impressive and important book on the history and status of economic disparities and policies related to race and gender in the United States. Drawing on years of study, particularly of African American economic progress, Cherry (p. xiii) has "struggled to find compatibility between [his] head and [his] heart," tackling tough, controversial questions forthrightly. In this book Cherry has set himself to assess the source and exten
Many conservative economists claim that financial considerations have led businesses to hire minorities because such practices increase profits. government offered $508 million to settle more than one thousand lawsuits brought against the federally funded Voice of America by female workers. Even Alan Greenspan has urged firms to eliminate the “distortions that arise as a result of discrimination.”The political agenda regarding this issue is polarized. At the same time, African American employees of Coca-Cola sued their employer, citing the large number of minorities in low-paying jobs, with just a handful at top levels. In opposition, many liberal economists believe businesses will hire minorities only if forced to do so by equal employment opportunity policies. Robert Cherry bridges these two positions, arguin