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abstract: 'Racial earnings inequalities in the United States diminished
significantly over the three decades following World War II, but since
then have not changed very much. Meanwhile, black-white disparities in
employment have become increasingly pronounced. What accounts for this
historical pattern? Sociologists often understand the evolution of
racial wage and employment inequality as the consequence of economic
restructuring, resulting in narratives about black economic fortunes
that emphasize changing skill demands related to the rise and fall of
the industrial economy. Reviewing a large body of work by economic
historians and other researchers, this article contends that the
historical evidence is not consistent with manufacturing-and
skills-centered explanations of changes in relative black earnings and
employment. Instead, data from the 1940s onward suggest that racial
earnings inequalities have been significantly influenced by political
and institutional factors-social movements, government policies,
unionization efforts, and public-employment patterns-and that racial
employment disparities have increased over the course of the postwar and
post-1970s periods for reasons that are not reducible to skills. Taking
a broader historical view suggests that black economic fortunes have
long been powerfully shaped by nonmarket factors and recenters research
on racial discrimination as well as the political and institutional
forces that influence labor markets.'
affiliation: 'Sites, W (Corresponding Author), Univ Chicago, Sch Social Serv Adm,
Chicago, IL 60637 USA.
Sites, William; Parks, Virginia, Univ Chicago, Sch Social Serv Adm, Chicago, IL
60637 USA.'
author: Sites, William and Parks, Virginia
author-email: 'w-sites@uchicago.edu
vparks@uchicago.edu'
author_list:
- family: Sites
given: William
- family: Parks
given: Virginia
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/0032329210394998
files: []
issn: 0032-3292
journal: POLITICS \& SOCIETY
keywords: 'earnings; employment; racial discrimination; deindustrialization; skills
mismatch; labor-market institutions'
keywords-plus: 'WHITE WAGE DIFFERENTIALS; CIVIL-RIGHTS POLICY; UNITED-STATES;
TECHNOLOGICAL-CHANGE; UNEMPLOYMENT GAP; PUBLIC-SECTOR; RELATIVE
EARNINGS; GREAT COMPRESSION; FAMILY-STRUCTURE; JOB SEGREGATION'
language: English
month: MAR
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '134'
pages: 40-73
papis_id: 6ca8bd50446cc26d53a80ee71a84b32d
ref: Sites2011whatdo
times-cited: '19'
title: What Do We Really Know About Racial Inequality? Labor Markets, Politics, and
the Historical Basis of Black Economic Fortunes
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000287963300002
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '31'
volume: '39'
web-of-science-categories: Political Science; Social Issues; Sociology
year: '2011'