Last Hired, First Fired? Unemployment and Urban Black Workers During the Great Depression
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 52 (2) , 415-429
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700010834
Abstract
Throughout the Great Depression, the unemployment rates of blacks exceeded those of whites in urban areas of both North and South. Among men, this difference was largely due to racial differences in occupational status, whereas among women, unemployment rates were dramatically higher for blacks even within specific occupations. The occupational pattern of the unemployment gap suggests that labor market discrimination played a role, especially in unskilled service jobs.Keywords
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