Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs

by Deirdre A. Royster

Stephen Steinberg (Foreword)

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Prominent figures from Booker T. Washington to William Julius Wilson have dispensed the same advice to young black men: "Get a trade". This text puts such folk wisdom to an empirical test and exploses the subleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favours the white job seeker over the black.
  • ISBN10 0520229991
  • ISBN13 9780520229990
  • Publish Date 2 October 2003 (first published 1 January 2003)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 June 2009
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 242
  • Language English