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Volume 52 - December 1992

Contents

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Reviews of Books

Papers Presented at the Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association

  • Last Hired, First Fired? Unemployment and Urban Black Workers During the Great Depression

  • William A. Sundstrom
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 March 2009, pp. 415-429

  • Throughout the Great Depression, the unemployment rates of blacks exceeded those of whites in urban areas of both North and South. Among men, this difference was largely due to racial differences in occupational status, whereas among women, unemployment rates were dramatically higher for blacks even within specific occupations. The occupational pattern of the unemployment gap suggests that labor market discrimination played a role, especially in unskilled service jobs.

Reviews of Books

Papers Presented at the Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association

  • Working Class Rosies: Women Industrial Workers during World War II

  • Sherrie A. Kossoudji, Laura J. Dresser
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 March 2009, pp. 431-446

  • After joining the industrial workforce during World War II, women disappeared from industrial employment with postwar reconversion. This article uses data from Ford Motor Company employee records to describe female industrial workers, their work histories before Ford, and their exit patterns from Ford. We draw a more complete picture of these industrial workers and discuss the differences between those who chose to leave Ford and those who left involuntarily. Contrary to popular myth it was housewives, along with African-American and older women, those with the fewest outside opportunities, who were more likely to be laid-off.

Reviews of Books

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

Reviews of Books

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

Reviews of Books

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

Reviews of Books

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