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

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New York : Garland Pub., 2000.

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Description	1 online resource (xix, 185 pages).
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.
Note	Print version record.
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Subject	Discrimination in employment -- Michigan -- Detroit.
	African American automobile industry workers -- Michigan -- Detroit.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
	African American automobile industry workers. (OCoLC)fst00799034
	Discrimination in employment. (OCoLC)fst00895050
	Michigan -- Detroit. (OCoLC)fst01205010
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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