TY - GEN T1 - Race and the invisible hand : how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobs T2 - George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies. A1 - Royster, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Alexia), 1966- LA - English PP - Berkeley PB - University of California Press YR - 2003 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm56029963 AB - From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test--and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favors the white job-seeker over the black OP - 226 CN - HD8081.A65 R69 2003eb SN - 9780520937376 SN - 0520937376 SN - 1417525428 SN - 9781417525423 SN - 1597348457 SN - 9781597348454 SN - 9780520229990 SN - 0520229991 SN - 9780520239517 SN - 0520239512 KW - African Americans : Employment. KW - Discrimination in employment : United States. KW - Blue collar workers : United States. KW - Noirs américains : Travail. KW - Discrimination dans l'emploi : États-Unis. KW - Cols bleus : États-Unis. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Labor. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Labor & Industrial Relations. KW - African Americans : Employment KW - Blue collar workers KW - Discrimination in employment KW - United States KW - Diskriminierung KW - Arbeitswelt KW - USA KW - Schwärze ER -