Socio-economic restructuring and employment : the case of minority ethnic groups

Iganski, Paul and Payne, Geoff (1999) Socio-economic restructuring and employment : the case of minority ethnic groups. British Journal of Sociology, 50 (2). pp. 195-215. ISSN 0007-1315

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Abstract

The consequences of major changes in employment, due to the decline of manufacturing and the growth of the service sector, have not been well-documented, nor theorized, in the sociology of ethnic relations, even in recent studies. For example, Blumer's classic argument that economic development adapts to ‘race relations’, rather than the reverse as predicted by the modernization school, has not been either empirically resolved or conceptually applied to the UK. By adapting data from the Labour Force Survey and the Census, the paper begins to fill this gap with a detailed account of three main minority ethnic groups, and a separate analysis of male and female employment. It is demonstrated that, contrary to assumptions that members of the minority ethnic groups suffered most from de-industrialization, they actually did rather well, and in some cases did better than the majority population. These findings are re-conceptualized as collective social mobility, as part of a review of a number of conceptual frameworks in the light of the data.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
British Journal of Sociology
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? economic re-structuringde-industrialization industrial sectors employment minority ethnic groups social mobilitysociology and political science ??
ID Code:
61777
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Deposited On:
22 Feb 2013 10:12
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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