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Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets

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Full Title:

Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets

Contributors:

By (Author) Leah Platt Boustan

ISBN:

9780691202495

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Publication Date:

18th August 2020

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Labour / income economics
Ethnic studies

Dewey:

331.6396073

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

216

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 235mm

Description

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 space in receiving areas. Traditionally, the Great Bl

Reviews

"Co-Winner of the 2018 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association"
"In her rich and technical account Competition in the Promised Land, Leah Boustan employs the tools of her trade--resourceful matching of data sets, rigorous modeling of labor phenomena, sweeping use of census figures--to analyze the demographics and economics of the Great Migration as a whole."---James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review
"Boustan offers several original and valuable insights and extensions [to the existing literature]."---Howard Bodenhorn, EH.Net
"Highly recommended for anyone studying mid-twentieth-century black migration in the United States and racially segregated labor markets and housing patterns in northern American cities."---Farley Grubb, Journal of Southern History
"Competition in the Promised Land effectively revises and extends the voluminous scholarship on the Great Migration, demonstrating what the very best of economic history can bring to the study of the history of African Americans."---Keona K. Ervin, Michigan Historical Review

Author Bio

Leah Platt Boustan is professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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