Analyzing the history of the "Oklahoma Eagle" provides insight into the problems and the opportunities involved in operating a black newspaper and reveals the factors responsible for the paper's longevity. The paper has been owned and operated by members of the Edward Lawrence Goodwin family since 1938 and has been staffed by excellent journalists over the course of the years. A review of copies of the "Eagle" from the last 9 years reveals a number of consistencies. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Businesses, Black Employment, Journalism, Newspapers, Publications, Publishing...
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When you see only white male workers on construction job sites throughout the metro, many will say that is due to laziness of Black men. This is in fact institutional denial of entry into union trades. Ironically, the same lazy Black men forefathers might have worked on the original jobs for free. 6/13/18 Today's guest Thomas Johnson , a elder of the Twin Cities Community, Retired Business Owner and former Union Member Financial Co-host Lennie Chism "The Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 is...
Topics: KMOJ, Davis-Bacon Act, Black Employment, Financial Fitness, Lennie Chism, Unions, Gentrification,...
The fourth quarter Bureau of Labor statistics show an improvement in the employment situation for Vietnam veterans, including employment for Negro and other minority races. The unemployment rate for newly discharged veterans is still slightly higher than that for nonveterans, but the rate for age group (20-24 and 25-30) is decreasing as a result of the improved job market during 1973 and of special efforts to employ veterans. Attendance in school was the reason most frequently given by veterans...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics, Statistical Data,...
This report analyzes recent developments in the labor-force status of blacks and examines their job situation relative to whites. The recent slowdown in economic activity has had serious repercussions for Negro workers although their situation has deteriorated less than in previous economic declines. Tables provide employment, unemployment, and labor force participation statistics. Data are separated by age, color, sex, occupation, and full- or part-time labor force status. (Author/BH)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Employment Statistics, Labor Force, Occupational Clusters, Racial...
The second quarter 1974 Bureau of Labor Statistics show little change over the past year in the job situation for Vietnam veterans (20-34 years). With the number of newly discharged veterans being reduced, the unemployment rate remains steady at 5 percent; a much smaller proportion of Vietnam veterans now are 20-24 years old, where the unemployment rate is considerably higher than for older veterans. A substantial difference still remains between the higher jobless rate of the younger veterans...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics, Statistical Data,...
This investigation is concerned with the ways in which the rate of Negro employment is constrained in different industries. Two types of stability in the employment of Negroes are postulated relating to an industry's responsiveness to community percent Negro, and to the organizational imperatives for a unique racial division of labor. An empirical method for classifying industries according to their stability patterns is also introduced. The results from applying this procedure indicate the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Blacks, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Industry,...
In early 1942, the "Pittsburgh Courier," the largest black newspaper in the United States, began its Double V campaign stressing the right of black workers to have equality at home when blacks were fighting inequality abroad. An examination of the campaign, however, reveals that it was dead by the end of the year, while substantial gains by black workers did not occur until a year or so later. To discover why the newspaper dropped its campaign before it accomplished its goals, an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Black History, Blacks, Civil Rights, Equal Opportunities (Jobs),...
Although limited in scope, census data still provide the best general indexes of social change in the United States and where comparable categories over time periods exist the data can provide the basis for making decisions relevant to anticipated changes in the future. Changes from rural to urban residence among blacks in various age groups are well documented and are associated with shifts in occupations which vary by race, sex, and age. Upward shifts in occupational levels from farming...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Blacks, Employment Patterns, Literature Reviews, Occupational...
Traditional recruitment for employment could be made through news media, but for the hard-to-employ more aggressive tactics will be necessary. A company will need to tap community resources such as state employment services, Office of Economic Opportunity agencies, the Urban League, and vocational rehabilitation agencies. A special company recruiting agent, who can move freely in the community, will go into the community centers and pool halls to find and attract future employees. Private...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged,...
This pamphlet is the first in a series designed to provide a compilation of selected demographic, social, economic, and other statistical data relating to selected populations. Topics covered here (in both discussion and table/graph format) include Black population growth and distribution, residence, income gain, poverty rate increase, labor force participation, occupational distribution, representation in selected occupations, occupational differences, farm population declines, school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Black Family, Black Population Trends, Census Figures, Educational...
Black male earnings have gradually increased relative to white male earnings since 1940, with the rise during the 1960's and early 1970's larger than that observed earlier. Five possible explanations account for this narrowing of racial wage differences: (1) a convergence in black and white income producing characteristics; (2) enhancement in the perceived quality of these income producing characteristics, e.g., schooling quality; (3) effects of migration; (4) effects of government affirmative...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Affirmative Action, Black Education, Black Employment, Blacks, Business Cycles, Data...
This essay focuses on southern West Virginia between 1915 and 1932 to explore the dynamics of Afro-American work and community life in the Appalachian region. More specifically, it analyzes the rise and expansion of the black coal mining proletariat, the role of black men and women in the process, and the impact of the proletarianization on black economic life in coal mining towns. The emergence of the black coal mining proletariat was an exceedingly complex process. It was deeply rooted in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Black History, Black Population Trends, Blacks, Coal, Labor...
Of 12,429 persons employed by New York City dailies, only 3.7 percent are Negroes and only 2.5 percent are of Puerto Rican or other Latin American background. In magazine and broadcasting firms in New York State employing 50 or more persons, only 5 percent are Negroes and six firms employ no Negroes, while no Spanish-Americans, Asians or American Indians are employed by any upstate company. Committee recommendations are made in the areas of recruitment and placement, education and training,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advisory Committees, Black Employment, Business Responsibility, Employment,...
This report contains data from the sixth annual survey of ethnic group employment in the California State Colleges. For the first time, colleges were asked to report the number of male and female incumbents of positions included in the survey, which covered the 1969-70 academic year. The survey includes employees who serve half-time or more in clerical, trade and craft, technical and sub-professional, custodial, professional, administrative, instructional faculty, supervisory and protective...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Employed Women, Employment Statistics, Ethnic Distribution, Ethnic...
This study examines the relationship of the Black Man to the profession of engineering. Chapter I discusses the background of the study, its potential value, and the long-term outlook for Blacks in engineering. Chapter II briefly describes 2 earlier studies on this subject and the institutions from which data was obtained. Chapter III presents enrollment data of engineering colleges for 1969-70, and makes comparisons of enrollments over the period 1955-70. Comments of college administrators on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Colleges, Black Employment, Black Students, Blacks, Employment Opportunities,...
The report, in assessing regional prospects for business and management and accounting graduates at all degree levels through the rest of the 1970's, arrives at several estimates. The estimated 52,000 degrees to be awarded in 1980 in the Southern region represents a 16 percent increase over the number awarded in 1972. Adjusting the figure to allow for those not entering the labor market immediately and those already in the labor market, new entrants are estimated at 41,000 in 1980. Demand was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountants, Black Employment, Business, College Graduates, Demand Occupations,...
Characteristics and determinants of earnings distributions for black and white males are revealed in samples from the 1960 and 1970 censuses. Using this data, this paper describes and contrasts the properties of black and white male earnings distributions. It also uses earnings functions estimated from the census to identify and rank variables in terms of their contribution in explaining relative earnings dispersion. Extensive statistical analysis is used to make predictions about black and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Census Figures, Data Analysis, Employment, Equal Opportunities...
Growth or decline in the labor force can be viewed as stemming from changes in population and labor force participation, and from their interaction. In the period 1940-70 a large increase occurred in the female labor force, particularly in the South, while a decrease was noted in the participation of nonwhites. When the sexes are considered separately within the color groups, the highest increase in labor force participation was that for white females, a lower increase was observed for nonwhite...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Black Influences, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Females,...
The hard-to-employ, both urban and rural, share common characteristics of inadequate income, slum housing, inferior education, no medical attention, and lack of real job opportunities. The deficiencies dove-tail, and families are often afflicted with all. The picture may seem bleak, but there is optimism in reclamation of the so-called disadvantaged for both social and economic reasons. This group does present an unrealized manpower source that may reach fruition through special training and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged,...
Traditional employment screening procedures; the interview, the job application, the high school diploma and work try-outs, may screen out rather than screen in the hard-to-employ. Employment testing may reflect the trainee's anxiety, his cultural differences, the irrelevancy of test questions, and his inability to read rather than his potential capability as a worker. This monograph questions the traditional employment techniques for the hard core and suggests some alternatives. (DB)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Interviews, Job...
This study examines the relative earnings of black men from a time series perspective covering 1930 to 1990. Regression analyses were fitted to annual data to isolate factors responsible for changes in relative earnings. National and regional data on population growth and employment growth by industry were analyzed to determine the degree of spatial mismatch between jobs and workers. The following main conclusions are reported: (1) little evidence was found of a largescale upward trend in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Blacks, Business Cycles, Differences, Economic Research, Employment...
Data collected during the National Longitudinal Surveys were used to examine the labor force behavior of black and white women from fourteen to twenty-four and thirty to forty-four years of age. Focus is on racial convergence in labor force participation rates (the percentage of the population group either working or looking for work) over this 1967 to 1972 period. The findings include the following: for the most part, labor force participation rates for white women of all ages and marital...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Blacks, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics,...
Data collected from 1967 to 1972 during the National Longitudinal Surveys was used to examine the labor force behavior of the mature women's cohort (women who were thirty to forty-four years old in 1967) as well as their attitudes toward work and home. The findings include the following: while white women increased their labor force participation levels, black women decreased theirs; since black labor force participation rates were higher than white levels in 1967, the net result was a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Blacks, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics,...
In their annual employment reports of 1972, the 609 commercial television stations included in this study reported that 10 percent of their 39,071 full time employees were drawn from members of minority groups, a slight increase from the nine percent reported in 1971. The proportion of women employees (22 percent) did not change between 1971 and 1972. At the same time employment at the 609 stations rose by about one percent. In 1972, 22.5 percent of the stations reported no full time minority...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Broadcast Industry, Commercial Television, Employed Women,...
Previous work on job availability according to Holland's classification is examined in terms of the following variables: (1) the number of jobs in the U.S. in 1970 by prestige level as well as type of work, (2) the distribution of types of jobs in and out of government service, (3) race and sex differences in type and level of work, and (4) projections for future demand for kinds of labor. The questions raised include: (1) All things except labor demand being equal, what are the chances of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment...
This document describes the work of a teacher training institute sponsored by the Kent State Pan-African Studies Department and the Council of Independent Black Institutions and held at Kent State University on July 7-18, 1986. The underlying concept was that a new generation of African-American youth must be developed. These young people must be capable of decision-making that will positively affect family, community, nation, and world. The participants were trained to see education as a human...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Education, Black Employment, Blacks, Child Development, Elementary Secondary...
In this study of black employment in the building trades in Connecticut, a state-wide survey was made of workers, students, apprentices, project directors, public officials, and union and trade association officers. The survey showed that even with an increase of nearly 50 percent since 1960, blacks still represent less than 7 percent of all construction workers, and few of those are in skilled trades. This has continued despite increasing shortages of skilled labor for two reasons: (1) With...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Apprenticeships, Black Employment, Blacks, Building Trades, Disadvantaged, Employment...
This report by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Statistics covers youth employment and education, and their interwoven causes and results. Numerous statistical charts and explanatory notes are included. Factors, such as age, race, sex and status, are analyzed. (MML)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Census Figures, Dropouts, Education, Employment Patterns,...
This institute was planned to assist public school counselors in their work with minority and deprived youth by providing information about employment conditions and opportunities in local geographical areas, by establishing regular communication lines between the schools and business and industry, and by furthering the counselors knowledge of the attitudes which these youth have towards employment, education, their place in society, and the world beyond their experience. To achieve these...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Career Guidance, Career Opportunities, Disadvantaged Youth,...
In the period since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act Blacks have continued to experience severe disadvantages relative to Whites in such areas as family stability, unemployment rates, average income, poverty rates, and dependence on government transfer payment programs. From the diverse statistical indicators of relative status two sharply conflicting interpretations have emerged. One stresses relative improvements and convergence towards a position of parity with Whites. The second...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Blacks, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Equal Opportunities...
This report culminates 2 years of a major policy inquiry into New York's manpower problems by the State Senate's Special Senate Committee on Manpower. Part One gives data showing unemployment by occupation, race, education, and place of residence. The effects on the disadvantaged of changing employment patterns are demonstrated, and various manpower programs are evaluated. Part Two discusses the implications of these findings for welfare, unemployment insurance, and manpower development...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Labor...
Government appeals for private employers to hire the hardcore unemployed are logically answered by the query: "Does the Federal Government, the Nation's largest employer, have its own house in order?" This paper explores the extent to which permanent civil service jobs have been opened to the disadvantaged. Problems discovered are similar to those faced in the private sector--employing the disadvantaged conflicts with the desire to hire the best personnel, and it challenges the merit...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Federal Government,...
This speech emphasizes a relatively new and important function of the university-equalizing educational opportunity. The need for education and its potential as human capital are examined in light of the rapid educational advancement. Universities must face this advancement and meet the needs of society. A review of Negro development reaffirms the need for equalization of educational opportunity. The opening of educational opportunity is seen as an effort to create human capital. Human capital...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Black Students, Economic Development, Educational Needs, Employment...
This document presents the following monthly statistical data for the population of United States: (1) employment status; (2) characteristics of the unemployed; (3) characteristics of the employed and their job categories; (4) seasonally adjusted employment and unemployment; (5) national employment; (6) employment in states and areas; (7) national average hours worked and earnings; (8) hours and earnings in states and areas; (9) productivity data; and (10) state and area labor force. Among the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics,...
The participation and status of minority persons and women in educational research and development organizations and researchers' perceptions of inequitable treatment and effective responses to inequitability were examined in three surveys by the American Educational Research Association. These surveys were undertaken to remedy the lack of specific information on sex and ethnic differences. The first survey of research organizations found both women and minorities underrepresented, with women...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Employed Women,...
Rapid employment growth in a 10-county nonmetro area in southern Georgia provided jobs, but not for most longer term resident households whose head lived in the area during the years from 1976 through 1981. Despite the area's impressive job growth during these years only 20% of the long term resident households had more workers in 1981 than in 1976, and only 27% had a stable economic history. Their average income levels fell. The 1976-81 income gap was stable between households headed by the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Economic Factors, Economic Progress, Employment Opportunities,...
In spite of lack of support from white women, educated black women concentrated their efforts on better conditions for the uneducated and the poorer among them during the late 19th century. Their primary concerns were education and employment opportunities, suffrage, the defense of black female morality, and the condemnation of lynching. The philosophy of black female leaders was that they received their education for the elevation of the race. They believed in the moral superiority of women,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Attitudes, Black Employment, Black History, Black Leadership, Black...
While the continuing wage gap between men and women, Whites and non-Whites has been well documented, the purpose of this study was to examine the role which discrimination on the basis of race/ethnicity as well as sex plays in the setting of wages. Whether pay equity is an effective means of remedying race-based wage discrimination was also explored. A study by the Memphis State University (Tennessee) Center for Research on Women indicates that non-Whites were under-compensated for the work...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Comparable Worth, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs),...
PREPARED AS A GUIDE TO PROVIDE UNPLEDGED EMPLOYERS WITH PRACTICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE TECHNIQUES USED BY COMPANIES PARTICIPATING IN "PLANS FOR PROGRESS," A PROGRAM IN WHICH EMPLOYERS COMMIT THEMSELVES TO OFFERING EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY, THIS BOOKLET DESCRIBES ACTUAL SITUATIONS REPORTED BY "PLANS FOR PROGRESS" COMPANIES. THE FIRST SECTION OF THIS GUIDE DISCUSSES SUCCESSFUL APPROACHES TO THE INTEGRATION OF MINORITY GROUP EMPLOYEES INTO THE WORK FORCE AND SOME OF THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Case Records, Community Problems, Employment Practices, Employment...
This study examines the relationship between locus of control and subsequent unemployment experience for a national probability sample of teenagers. Using multiple regression analysis to control for a variety of individual differences, the influence of "internal-external" attitudes held as a teenager on subsequent unemployment experience in the adult labor market is determined. The internal attitude is defined as viewing personal success or failure as dependent on one's own behavior....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Black Attitudes, Black Employment, Black Youth, Employee Attitudes,...
The New Haven public schools affirmative action report contains statements of purpose, policy, and responsibility in conjunction with a plan of action to ensure that job applicants and employees receive fair consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The goals and timetables established will rectify underutilization of minorities, and women and will be subject to periodic evaluation. (Author/DW)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Affirmative Action, Black Employment, Civil Rights, Elementary Secondary Education,...
During the 1980s, the population of black women aged 16 years and older in the United States increased by 17.2%, and labor force participation for black women increased by 29%. In 1987, black women accounted for 50% of total black employment. The unemployment rate for black teenagers in 1990 was 30% (versus 10.8% for all black women). Labor force participation by black women increased from 53.1% in 1980 to 57.8% in 1990. Predictably, black women with more years of schooling have higher labor...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Employment Opportunities,...
This monograph presents the first study of Negro police officers in Texas, the need for them and factors surrounding their use. It was felt that the need for Negro police officers was more than symbolic, and recommended fair representation in the agency that regulates their everyday life. Minority officers can provide a special competence in dealing with minority groups, as well as in helping to reduce stereotyping and prejudice of both blacks and whites. A brief questionnaire was sent to each...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Correlation, Employment Level, Employment Practices, Geographic...
This document--one of six closely related studies designed to consider employability of rural labor, the impact of industry, and social adjustments in the Mississippi Delta and the Ozarks--examines the socioeconomic factors affecting employment in industry of black Americans living in a rural area of the Mississippi Delta. Madison, Arkansas, the study community, is 25 miles west of Memphis, Tennessee, in St. Francis County. In 1970, Madison had 985 inhabitants, mainly blacks. Researchers...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Problems,...
In spite of increasingly effective anti-discrimination laws and a reduction in the educational differential between blacks and whites, the rapid economic progress made by Negroes in the 1940's and early 1950's has not continued. This study finds evidence that labor market adjustments and population changes are major factors. The labor market distortions of World War II induced the northward migration of many unskilled blacks, who were later displaced by white farm workers when technological...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Blacks, Demography, Employment Opportunities, Labor Force...
This book is a compilation of data on black Americans. The record of the past two decades shows that blacks have been migrating out of the rural South into the cities of the North and West. There, with greater choices, many have been progressing economically from unskilled low-paid jobs into white-collar and skilled occupations. In search of better housing and jobs, many have been moving out from their first place of urban settlement in city core centers into the surrounding suburban rings....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Black Housing, Black Population Trends, Blacks, Employment...
The panoply of possible factors contributing to the observed earnings differences between blacks and whites exceeds current analytical abilities. Thus, this paper concentrates on a limited range of factors: skill differences among workers, geographic location (or labor market), and race. Skill differences are measured by schooling and experience levels. The analysis allows for interactions with specific labor markets instead of averaging across different labor markets and uses data from the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Black Population Trends, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Educational...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is not complying with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) program requirements according to a report by the General Accounting Office (GAO). It found that although the overall ratio of blacks employed at SSA headquarters increased from 1982 to 1985, underrepresentation of blacks--especially black men--remains an issue in the SSA components and job series GAO reviewed. While black women are fully represented in most job series through the grade...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Affirmative Action, Bias, Black Employment, Change Strategies, Employment Practices,...
In predominantly white, four-year, residential institutions where black populations are less than 10 percent, black professional staff tend to be in entry-level positions. They have often been found in special programs for minority and low-income students. A survey of black administrators in midwestern institutions showed that by the early 1970s: (1) the majority were associated with equal opportunity programs (EOPS); (2) 90 percent were being paid with institutional funds; (3) they were in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Affirmative Action, Black Employment,...
Data collected in a 1968 interview survey of a national probability sample of young women 14-24 years of age are the basis for a 5-year longitudinal study of employment and educational experience. The report analyzes work experience, educational background, labor market status, work attitudes, and plans for the future. Future analysis will use changes in the variables to determine the effects of socioeconomic and demographic factors on education and employment decisions. Studies of other...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Employment, Demography, Educational Demand, Employment Opportunities, Females,...
