ABSTRACT
Susan Turner Meiklejohn’s Wages, Race, Skills and Space: Lessons from Employers in Detroit’s Auto Industry is an important study of wage and employment differences between blacks and whites in an urban economy. The book presents the results of a Detroit-based research endeavor which sought to understand the role of employer practices, geography, job skills, and the characteristics of workers in explaining economic disparities between black and white workers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 2|6 pages
Racial Segregation in the Detroit Metropolitan Area
A Long-Lived and Persistent Phenomenon
chapter Chapter 6|49 pages
Race and Skills
The Role of Perceived Skill Differences in the Lower Wages of African-American Workers