SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Human Capital Flight, Deindustrialization, Spatial Mismatch
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History of wages: great depression: 1929, fdr institutes social safety nets in response to the great depression, welfare, social security: the new deal, unemployment insurance, minimum wage, pensions, etc. Post world war ii: women and non-whites entered manufacturing jobs, taft-harty act diminished the power of unions, non-whites were denied military enlistment until final throes of war, excluded non-whites from the gi bill of rights. Limitations of the gi bill: many blacks and latinos were denied opportunities to start businesses, buy homes, go to same colleges as whites, and gain access to new jobs, (cid:862)affir(cid:373)ati(cid:448)e a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:449)as (cid:449)hite(cid:863) Postwar industrialization: many whites found their way into steady working class jobs in. Americas rising manufacturing sector: postwar years were boom times for american manufacturing. End of industrialization: manufacturing jobs disappeared from the northeast and midwest in the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)"s, factories gave way to a service economy, rise of fast-food and sales industry, particularly challenging to non-whites (blacks and puerto ricans)
