Advanced Capitalism and Black/White Race Relations in the United States
A Split Labor Market Interpretation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5619976 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edna Bonacich (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34 |
| Publication date | 1976-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2094371 |
| OpenAlex | W2318220880 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 222 |
| References cited | 17 |
A distinguishing feature of the black position in advanced capitalism lies in relatively high unemployment and underemployment, a phenomenon that emerged in the 1930s and became firmly entrenched in the mid-1950s. To explain this we examined the black/white split labor market between World War I and the New Deal, showing how blacks were used to undermine white workers and their unions. The conflict was resolved with New Deal Labor legislation, protecting the unions and outlawing undercutting. This permitted a coalition to emerge between black and white workers. But in the long run the rising cost of labor drove capital to seek cheaper labor overseas, to make use of internal pockets of unprotected labor or to automate. All three processes hurt black industrial workers disproportionately, leaving a group of hardcore unemployed in the ghettos
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Probing Precarious Work
Class, race, and gender and theorizing welfare states
Working Class Mobilization and American Exceptionalism
Capital, Competition, and Discrimination
Economic Dualism
The historical structuring of the U.S. tourism workforce
Red Counties, Blue Counties, and Occupational Segregation by Sex and Race
State repression and collective action in South Africa, 1970–84
Group Conflict, Prejudice, and the Paradox of Contemporary Racial Attitudes
Occupational Recruitment, Retention, and Labor Force Cohort Representation
Strikebreaking or Solidarity in the Great Steel Strike of 1919
Labor Unionism and Racial Income Inequality
Changes in the Socioeconomic Stratification of the Races, 1962-73
Minority Unemployment, Labor Market Segmentation, and the Failure of Job-Training Policy in New York City
The Relationship between Industrialization and White Hostility toward Blacks in Southern Cities
Capital and Neighborhood in the United States
Political Elites and Labor Markets
Relative Size of the Black Population and Occupational Differentiation in Metropolitan Areas
Race Relations in the 1980s
The Economic Demise of Blacks in America
The Struggle for Employment Equity by Blacks On American and Canadian Railroads
An Exploration of the Term Underclass as It Relates To African-Americans
Race and Ethnic Differences in Punishment and Death Sentence Outcomes
A Class Functionalist Theory of Race
Stuck in a Time Warp? The Great Recession and the Socio-occupational Integration of Migrants in Spain
Class Segmentation and Divided Labor
Family, Work, and Access to Health Insurance Among Mature Women
Racializing Labor Discipline in the Carceral Employment System
The Conceptualization of Everyday Racism in Research on the Mental and Physical Health of Ethnic and Racial Groups
Ideology and Racial Stratification
The place of odds ratios in the study of place, race and differential occupational opportunities
Racial Gaps in Career Mobility during the Great Migration
Race, Labour, Law, and Capitalism
Unemployment Factors Among Venezuelan Immigrants in Colombia
Chinese immigrants on the Canadian prairie, 1910‐47
Race and gender as bases of class fractions and their effects on earnings
The Role of Organized Labor in Civil Society
Racial/Ethnic Hierarchy and Urban Labor Market Inequality
The Split Labor Market and the Origins of Antidrug Legislation in the United States
Public good provision in inter‐team conflicts
Black middle classes
Labor Recruitment and the Lure of the Capital
Toward a unified theory of ethnic antagonism
Nostalgia and precarious placemaking in southern poultry worlds
On the Sidelines
Democracy and civil rights
Income inequality between the sexes in male-dominated public health specialties
A home of her own
Endorsement of wage discrimination against immigrants
Social Class, Rent Destruction, and the Earnings of Black and White Men, 1982–2000
Mass migration and labor market incorporation
Ecological Race Differences in the Occupational Structure
Segmentation and gender occupational segregation within an industrial labor market
Racial inequality and social control
Toward a Structural Analysis of Illegal (Undocumented) Immigration
Theoretical Considerations of International Labor Migration
Immigrants and Minorities
Foreign Brides” Meet Ethnic Politics in Taiwan
Immigrant Earnings
Racialized Incorporation
Incentives to Return
Immigration, Ethnic Stratification, and Native Working Class Discipline
Immigrant Women in Australia
Occupational Mobility of Australia's Vietnamese Community
Populism and Empowerment
Income Rich and Asset Poor
Gender, risk and access to tax-favored fringe benefits
Immigration restrictions and the American worker
The Nonlinear Relationship Between Education and Mortality
Black/White Racial Inequality in the U.S
Controlling Crime in the 80 S
The Middle Class Revisited or Marxism Takes up Sociology's Burden
Sexual Antagonism
The Post-Industrial Transition
Excluded” By Choice
Approaches to ethnic conflict resolution
Racial Conflict and Split Labor Markets
Family Work Histories
Educational selectivity in U.S. Immigration
Place, race and differential occupational opportunities
Anti-Muslim prejudice in Europe
Race, Class, and Labor Markets
Feudal Relics or Capitalist Monuments? Notes on the Sociology of Unfree Labour
Nonemployment of Black Men in Major Metropolitan Areas
Effects of Relative Group Size, Increase, and Segregation on the Earnings of Blacks and Asians
Sociological Analyses of Race and Ethnicity since the 1950s
Marxist and Neo-Marxist Interpretations of Ethnicity
Immigrant/Minority Status and Alienation
From Collective Bargaining to Social Justice Certification
Labor Market Incorporation of Central American Immigrants in Washington, D.C
Race and Gender Aspects of Marxian Macromodels
Correlates of Poverty
The Political Economy of Labor Market Discrimination
Capitalism, Democracy and Discrimination—The Rise and Decline of Racism in Cox's Caste, Class and Race 1
Diversity, Discrimination, and Persistent Inequality
Racial Differences in Unemployment in the United States, 1890–1990
Getting a Foot in the Door
Social Structural Sources of Anti-immigrant Prejudice in Europe
Further Reflections on ASR’s Greatest Hits
Structural Conditions and Racial Homicide Patterns
South Africa, a study in conflict
Los Mojados
The Negro Labor Unionist of New York
Black Chicago
The Indispensable Enemy
The Negro in the Slaughtering and Meat-Packing Industry in Chicago
Race Riot at East St. Louis
The Black Ghetto as Colony
Economic Aspects of the Black Internal Colony
Black workers and labor unions in Birmingham, Alabama, 1897–1904∗
The Negro Automobile Worker
Raymond B. Pinchbeck, The Virginia Negro Artisan and Tradesman
Jobs and Income for Negroes
A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism
The Sub-Proletariat
The Negro and the American Labor Movement
The Negro and Organized Labor
| Unique citing works | 222 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,44 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2026 (51) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 222 |