The new economy, globalisation and the impact on African Americans

Race and Class

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-34

  Persuad, Randolph B ^a   Lusane, Clarence ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034344614     PISSN: 03063968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030639600128967992     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. Alan Greenspan, 'Testimony of Chairman Alan Greenspan', before the Joint Economic Committee, US Congress (14 June 1999).
2. Al Gore, 'Remarks of Vice-President Al Gore, Center for National Policy', Washington, DC (9 July 1997).
3. Ibid.
4. David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: an enquiry into the origins of cultural change (Cambridge, MA, Basil Blackwell, 1990), and Jeffrey Harrod, Power, Production, and the Unprotected Worker (New York, Columbia University Press, 1987).
5. David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: an enquiry into the origins of cultural change (Cambridge, MA, Basil Blackwell, 1990), and Jeffrey Harrod, Power, Production, and the Unprotected Worker (New York, Columbia University Press, 1987).
6. Tate Hausman, 'Economy benefits the rich, busts the rest', Alternet website (24 September 1999).
7. See Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook, The Winner-Take-All Society: how more and more Americans compete for fewer and bigger prizes, encouraging economic waste, income inequality, and an impoverished culture life (New York, The Free Press, 1995).
8. 'Happy birthday: Dow Jones index turns 100', http://www.cnn.com (26 May 1999).
9. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has, on several occasions, voiced concern that there is too much optimism in stock prices. This of course is a veiled acknowledgement of the nature of the recent expansion of wealth.
10. Robert Kilborn and Lance Garden, 'USA', Christian Science Monitor (29 September 1999).
11. Alan Greenspan, 'Testimony of Chairman Alan Greenspan, The Federal Reserve's semiannual report on monetary policy', before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, US Senate (23 February 1999).
12. White House website, http://www.whitehouse.gov
13. Alan Greenspan, 'Monetary policy report', submitted to US Congress (22 July 1999).
14. Laura Foote Reiff, 'Jobs: the market alone won't do', Washington Post (16 September 1999).
15. Clarence Lusane, Race in the Global Era: African Americans at the millennium (Boston, MA, South End Press, 1997), p. 10.
16. Corporate Power and the American Dream (New York, Labor Institute, n.d.), p. 89.
17. Stephen Hippie, 'Contingent work: results from second survey', Monthly Labor Review (November 1998), p. 28.
18. Ibid, pp. 26-7.
19. Robin D. G. Kelley, 'The new working class and organized labor'. New Labor Forum (Fall 1997), p. 8.
20. 'An annual average pay by state and industry', US Bureau of Labor Statistics (23 June 1999).
21. Monthly Labor Review (27 January 1999).
22. William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears: the world of the urban poor (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), p. 249.
23. Ibid, pp. 29-30.
24. Ibid, p. 30.
25. US Census Bureau (24 September 1998).
26. 'Poverty 1997', US Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov
27. 'The measurement of poverty', http://www.childstats.gov
28. Janice Windau, 'Occupational fatalities among the immigrant population', Compensation and Working Conditions (Spring 1997), p. 41.
29. 'Occupational fatalities among the immigrant population', http://stats.bls.gov
30. 'The secret truth about race and welfare', GRIPP News and Notes (Vol. 1, Spring 1999), p. 2.
31. Timothy Egan, 'The war on drugs retreats, still turning prisoners', New York Times (28 February 1999).
32. 'Criminal offenders statistics', Bureau of Justice statistics, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov
33. Ibid. and Egan, op. cit.
34. Egan, ibid.