City Size and Ethnic Discrimination: Michigan Agricultural Implements and Iron Working Industries, 1890

Joan Underhill Hannon

The Journal of Economic History, 1982, vol. 42, issue 4, 825-845

Abstract: Late nineteenth-century immigrants tended to concentrate in large cities despite the fact that they experienced less occupational mobility there than they did in small cities. This paper suggests that variation across cities in labor management systems and in the associated froms of discrimination may help to explain this apparent paradox. Analysis of data from Michigan's agricultural implements and iron-working industries in 1890 indicates that discrimination in hiring made it more difficult for immigrants to break into the small-city labor force. But in large cities, immigrant mobility was restricted by discriminatory barriers to entry into higher level jobs.

Date: 1982
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