Competition in the promised land : black migrants in northern cities and labor markets /

Competition in the promised land : black migrants in northern cities and labor markets / Leah Platt Boustan.

"From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban...

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Main Author: Boustan, Leah Platt (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Series:NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Subjects:
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
Rural-urban migration > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Economic conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Migrations.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Migration, Internal.
Rural-urban migration.
United States.
History.

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Call Number: E185.6 .B77 2017
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