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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/9134| Title: | Race and the Invisible Hand |
| Authors: | Deirdre A., Royster |
| Keywords: | African Americans—Employment |
| Issue Date: | 2003 |
| Publisher: | University of California |
| Description: | Race and the Invisible Hand is a study about young black males who heeded the conventional wisdom. They enrolled in a trade school in Baltimore, Maryland, whose mission was to prepare students for entry into respectable blue-collar trades. Glendale Vocational High School offered tutelage in such quintessentially blue-collar subjects as auto mechanics, electrical construction, industrial electronics, brick masonry, carpentry, printing, and drafting. It is true that in 1989–90, the years in which they graduated, Baltimore’s economy was undergoing a major restructuring, and jobs in blue-collar trades were in short supply |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9134 |
| ISBN: | 0–520– 23951–2 |
| Appears in Collections: | African Studies |
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