Origin of the factoid-prevailing wage laws are remnant Jim Crow laws

Hamid Azari-Rad and Peter Philips
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Hamid Azari-Rad: Department of Economics, State University of New York-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 12561, USA; Tel.: +1-845-257-2944 azarih@newpaltz.edu
Peter Philips: Department of Economics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA; Tel.: +1-801-585-6465 peter.philips@mill.econ.utah.edu

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2002, vol. 34, issue 3, 275-284

Abstract: Opponents of the Federal Davis-Bacon Act contend that this law has racial bias, and that keeping African-Americans out of the construction industry was the original intent of the law. This paper addresses the latter issue by examining congressional records to unveil the original intentions behind passage of the Davis-Bacon Act. It also examines how false assertions or "factoids" are manufactured in the society by think tanks.

Keywords: Wage law; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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