SOC-S 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Blockbusting, 2000 United States Census, Redlining
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The core problem: joblessness and the rise of underclass . Lack of resources: jobs, community institutions, role models, marriageable men . Key argument: facing increased global and domestic competition, corporations downsize workforce to minimize the labor cost. Outsourcing and subcontracting: rise of temp workers. Increase in wage gap between high-skilled and low-skilled works. Low skilled jobs move to suburbs, while low skilled labor remain in the central cities. Concentration of poverty in the inner city. Create racial inequality (higher unemployment rates, low wage rates. Series of economic changes increased joblessness of low-skilled workers. These changes also decreased disproportionately low-skilled workers" wages. The proportion of low-skilled workers is higher among african americans. The end results: these economic changes affected african american works more negatively. This is a class-based explanation (the change isn"t solely due to race, a big problem is class inequality which ties into race since many african american"s are low skilled) Residential segregation in the 2000 us census.
