Black Unemployment Part of Unskilled Unemployment

Subjects:

• Economics » Economic Policy
• Economics » Labor Relations
• Sociology » Social Work
• Sociology » Race Relations

Reviews:

• This is an interesting and important book. It deals with a critical issue and shows that economic policies need to be more rigorously tested if they are to benefit all sections of the community. Its message should be heeded not only by academics but by politicians and policymakers who often make decisions based on simple explanations of complex realties.
  —Social Development Issues
• Black Unemployment is essential reading for anyone concerned with the problems of theunderclass in America.
  —Business Library Review
• This is an interesting book. David Schwartzman uses an eclectic combination of ideas to argue that black unemployment is especially high because black workers are especially likely to be unskilled....The strength of Schwartzman's book is his concern with the well-being of unskilled workers. This perspective gives him a critical insight into the unbalanced effects or economic growth, such as its propensity to generate unemployment as well as employment. It also creates a coherent political perspective which cannnot be neatly categorized as "left" or "right." He is critical of immigration, affirmative action, free trade, investment incentives, liberal social policies and public school monopolies. He supports public works programs, trade barriers, more spending on schooling, and vouchers. Whether or not he is right, it is a perspective deserving wide currency in these politically fractured times.
  —Eastern Economic Journal

Table of Contents:

• Tables
• Preface
• Black Unemployment
• Capital Goods and Technology
• The Substitution of Skilled for Unskilled Labor
• The Substitution of Foreign for Domestic Unskilled Labor
• IQ, Welfare, and the Poverty Culture
• Race and Politics
• Current Public Policy
• Policy Recommendations
• Index