Equality Denied: Tech and African Americans

William Lazonick (), Philip Moss and Joshua Weitz
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William Lazonick: The Academic-Industry Research Network
Philip Moss: The Academic-Industry Research Network
Joshua Weitz: The Academic-Industry Research Network

No inetwp177, Working Papers Series from Institute for New Economic Thinking

Abstract: Thus far in reporting the findings of our project "Fifty Years After: Black Employment in the United States Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission," our analysis of what has happened to African American employment over the past half century has documented the importance of manufacturing employment to the upward socioeconomic mobility of Blacks in the 1960s and 1970s and the devastating impact of rationalization - the permanent elimination of blue-collar employment - on their socioeconomic mobility in the 1980s and beyond. The upward mobility of Blacks in the earlier decades was based on the Old Economy business model (OEBM) with its characteristic "career-with-one-company" (CWOC) employment relations. At its launching in 1965, the policy approach of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission assumed the existence of CWOC, providing corporate employees, Blacks included, with a potential path for upward socioeconomic mobility over the course of their working lives by gaining access to productive opportunities and higher pay through stable employment within companies. It was through these internal employment structures that Blacks could potentially overcome barriers to the long legacy of job and pay discrimination.

Keywords: African American; Black. Asian; higher education; employment relations; equal employment opportunity; professionals; technology companies; Silicon Valley; Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO-1) data; social networks; employment discrimination. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D2 D3 D8 D91 E23 F22 F23 F66 G35 H11 H52 I2 J15 J21 J24 J31 J44 J53 J71 J82 L2 L63 M14 M5 N82 O15 O32 O36 P12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 93 pages
Date: 2022-02-18
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his, nep-lma, nep-pke and nep-ure
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DOI: 10.36687/inetwp177

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