Research Catalog

Title

Urban inequality : evidence from four cities / Alice O'Connor, Chris Tilly, Lawrence D. Bobo, editors.

Publication

New York: Russell Sage Foundation, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• O'Connor, Alice.
• Tilly, Chris
• Bobo, Lawrence.

Description

xii, 549 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

Based on a survey of employers and households in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles. Comprises 11 chapters by different authors, plus an introduction.

Series Statement

A volume in the multi city study of urban inequality

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Multi city study of urban inequality.

Subject

• Sociology, Urban > United States
• Cities and towns > United States
• Urban economics > United States
• Equality > United States
• Cities > economics
• Urban Population
• Ethnicity
• Social Class
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Housing
• Research
• United States > Race relations
• United States > Social policy
• United States > Economic policy

Genre/Form

• graph.
• graphique.
• gráfico.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Understanding inequality in the late twentieth-century metropolis : new perspectives on the enduring racial divide / Alice O'Connor -- Metropolises of the multi-city study of urban inequality : social, economic, demographic, and racial issues in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles / Reynolds Farley -- Stereotyping and urban inequality / Lawrence D. Bobo and Michael P. Massagli -- Perceived group discrimination and policy attitudes : the sources and consequences of the race and gender gaps / James R. Kluegel and Lawrence D. Bobo.
• Processes of racial residential segregation / Camille Zubrinsky Charles -- Ethnic residential segregation and its consequences / Franklin D. Wilson and Roger B. Hammer -- Space as a signal : how employers perceive neighborhoods in four metropolitan labor markets / Chris Tilly, Philip Moss, Joleen Kirschenman, and Ivy Kennelly -- Racial and ethnic differences in job searching in urban centers / Luis M. Falcon and Edwin Melendez -- Inequality through labor markets, firms, and families : the intersection of gender and race-ethnicity across three cities / Irene Browne, Leann Tigges, and Julie Press.
• Linking the multi-city study's household and employer surveys to test for race and gender effects in hiring and wage setting / Tom Hertz, Chris Tilly, and Michael P. Massagli -- Why opportunity isn't knocking : racial inequality and the demand for labor / Philip Moss and Chris Tilly -- Are jobs available for disadvantaged workers in urban areas? / Harry J. Holzer and Sheldon Danziger.

ISBN

0871546507

LCCN

^^^00036618^

OCLC

• 43708673
• SCSB-12431121

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library