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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp016m311s18r| Title: | The Retail Race Divide: How the Retail Industry Is Perpetuating Racial Inequality in the 21st Century |
| Contributors: | Ruetschlin, Catherine Asante-Muhammad, Dedrick |
| Keywords: | Retail trade—United States—Discrimination in employment Retail trade—United States—Minority employees |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| Publisher: | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Place of Publication: | Baltimore, Md. |
| Description: | This paper examines the differences in retail workers’ occupations, earnings, and schedules to reveal how employment in the retail industry fails to meet the needs of the Black and Latino workforce and, as a result, perpetuates racial inequality. Consistent disparities in labor market outcomes demonstrate the failure of markets to advance racial equity since the 1960s, even after decades of equality in law. As one of the largest sources of new employment in the US economy, and the second-largest industry for Black employment in the country, the problems of occupational segregation, low pay, unstable schedules, and involuntary part-time work among Black and Latino retail staff point to an important chance for employers to make a real impact on racial inequality by paying living wages and offering stable, adequate hours for all retail workers. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp016m311s18r |
| Related resource: | https://www.naacp.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04//Retail_Race_Divide_Rename.pdf |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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