Racial ideology and hiring decisions in Silicon Valley

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-233

  Park, Edward J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High technology industry; Race; Racial ideology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042800039     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022905821460     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Austin, R. and Stack, S. (1988). "Race, Class and Opportunity: Changing Realities and Perceptions." The Sociological Quarterly 29:357-69.
2. Bell, D. (1973). The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society. New York: Basic Books.
3. Bonacich, E. (1992). "Asian and Latino Immigrants in the Los Angeles Garment Industry: An Exploration of the Relationship between Capitalism and Racial Oppression." in California Immigrants in Comparative Perspective, edited by I. Light and P. Bhachu. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
4. Cancio, A. S, Evans D., and Maume D. (1996). "Reconsidering the Declining Significance of Race: Racial Differences in Early Career Wages." American Sociological Review 61:541-556.
5. Castells, M. (1989). The Informational dry: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban-Regional Process. Oxford: Blackwell.
6. Farkas, G. and Vicknair, K. (1996). "Appropriate Tests of Racial Wage Discrimination Requires Controls for Cognitive Skill: Comment on Cancio, Evans, and Maume." American Sociological Review 61:557-560.
7. Farley, R. and Allen, W. (1987). The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America. New York: Oxford University Press.
8. Gill, A. (1989). "The Role of Discrimination in Determining Occupational Structure." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 42:610-23.
9. Global Electronics. (1992). Vol. 116. Mountain View, California: Pacific Studies Center.
10. Hossfeld, K. (1988). "Division of Labor, Division of Lives." Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
11. Hossfeld, K. (1990). " 'Their Logic Against Them': Sex, Race, and Class Contradictions in Silicon Valley." Pp. 149-178 in Women Workers and Global Restructuring, edited by Kathryn Ward. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press.
12. lams, H. and Thornton, A. (1975). "Decomposition of Difference: A Cautionary Note." Sociological Methods and Research 3:341-51.
13. Jones, F. L. and Kelley J. (1984). "Decomposing Differences Between Groups: A Cautionary Note on Measuring Discrimination." Sociological Methods and Research 12:323-43.
14. Keller, J. (1981). "The Production Workers in Electronics." Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
15. Light, I. (1979). "Disadvantaged Minorities in Self-Employment." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 20:31-45.
16. Light, I. and Bonacich, E. (1988). Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles 1965-1982. Berkeley: University of California Press.
17. Maume, D., Cancio A. S. and Evans T. D. ( 1996). "Cognitive Skills and Racial Wage Inequality: Reply to Farkas and Vicknair." American Sociological Review 61:561-564.
18. McGuire, G. and Reskin, B. (1993). "Authority Hierarchies at Work: The Impacts of Race and Sex." Gender and Society 7:487-506.
19. Moss, P. and Tilly C. (1996). " 'Soft' Skills and Race: An Investigation of Black Men's Employment Problems." Work and Occupations 23:3 252-276.
20. Neckerman, K. and Kirschenman, J. (1991). "Hiring Strategies, Racial Bias, and Inner-City Workers." Social Problems 38:433-47.
21. Nee, V, Sanders J., and Sernau S. (1994). "Job Transitions in an Immigrant Metropolis: Ethnic Boundaries and the Mixed Economy." American Sociological Review 59:849-872.
22. O'Neill, J. (1990). "The Role of Human Capital in Earning Differences between Black and White Men." Journal of Economic Perspectives 4:25-45.
23. Park, E. (1992). "Asian Americans in Silicon Valley: Race and Ethnicity in the Postindustrial Economy." Ph.D. Thesis, Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley.
24. Payne, C. (1989). "On Declining-and Increasing-Significance of Race." Pp. 112-31 in The Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty, edited by C. V. Willie. Dix Hills, NY: General Hall, Inc.
25. Portes, A. and Rumbaut, R. (1996). Immigrant America: A Portrait. Berkeley: University of California Press.
26. Portes, A. and Zhou, M. (1996). "Self-Employment and the Earnings of Immigrants." American Sociological Review 61:219-230.
27. Reskin, B. and Roos, P. (1990). Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
28. Robinson, G. and Mcllwee, J. (1989). "Obstacles to Unionization in High-Tech Industries." Work and Occupations 16:115-136.
29. Rogers, E. and Larsen, J. (1984). Silicon Valley Fever. New York: Basic books.
30. Sanders, J. and Nee, V. (1987). "The Road to Parity: Determinants of the Socioeconomic Achievements of Asian Americans." Ethnic and Racial Studies 8:75-93.
31. Sanders, J. and Nee, V. (1996). "Immigrant Self-Employment: The Family As Social Capital and the Value of Human Capital." American Sociological Review 61:231-249.
32. Smith, J. and Welsh F. (1989). "Black Economic Progress after Myrdal." Journal of Economic Literature 28:519-64.
33. Thomas, M. (1993). "Race, Class, and Personal Income: An Empirical Test of the Declining Significance of Race Thesis, 1968-1988." Social Problems 40:328-342.
34. Thomas, M. and Hughes, M. (1986). "The Continuing Significance of Race: A Study of Race, Class, and Quality of Life in America, 1972-1985." American Sociological Review 51:830-41.
35. Waldinger, R. (1994). "The Making of an Immigrant Niche." International Migration Review 28:3-30.
36. Waldinger, Roger and Thomas Bailey. 1991. "The Continuing Significance of Race: Racial Conflict and Racial Discrimination in Construction." Politics and Society 19.
37. Wilson, W. J. (1978). The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
38. Wilson, W. J. (1987). The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
39. Wilson, W. J. (1989). "The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited but not Revised." Pp. 22-36 in Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty, edited by C. V. Willie. Dix Hills, NY: General Hall, Inc.
40. Wilson, W. J. (1996). When Work Disappears: The World of the Urban Poor. New York: Knoft.
41. Zhou, M. and Logan, J. (1989). "Returns on Human Capital in Ethnic Enclaves: New York City's Chinatown." American Sociological Review 54:809-20.