Joshua Weitz is a research associate at the Academic-Industry Research Network
Joshua Weitz
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There Can Be No Equality Without a Dramatic Renewal of Employment Opportunity for All American Workers
To fulfill MLK’s vision of jobs and freedom for Black Americans, Washington must rein in corporate greed
Employment and Earnings of African Americans Fifty Years After: Progress?
To fulfill MLK’s vision of jobs and freedom for Black Americans, Washington must rein in corporate greed
How the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
Since the 1980s, the enemy of equal employment opportunity through upward socioeconomic mobility has been the pervasive and entrenched corporate-governance ideology and practice of maximizing shareholder value.
How the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
In this introduction to our project, “Fifty Years After: Black Employment in the United States Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,” we outline the socioeconomic forces behind the promising rise and disastrous fall of an African American blue-collar middle class.