Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs

By D. Royster. 2003

346 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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1. Hana Shepherd
2. Renée Skeete Alston
3. A. Wingfield
4. D. Pager
5. S. Bushway
6. David R. Williams
7. Beth m. Huebner
8. Connie R. Wanberg

Citations in the corpus

• The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets. (2008, background): “Irrespective of an employer’s personal racial attitudes, the use of employee referrals is likely to reproduce the existing racial composition of an organization, restricting valuable employment opportunities from excluded groups (see also Royster 2003, Waldinger & Lichter 2003).”
• Maintaining Hierarchies in Predominantly White Organizations (2014, background): “Email: aharvey@gsu.edu Wingfield and Alston 275 differential access to social networks, and other issues collectively work to create stark racial disparities (Kirschenman & Neckerman, 1991; Reskin & Roos, 1991; Roscigno, 2007; Royster, 2003).”