Competition in the promised land : black migrants in northern cities and labor markets / Leah Platt Boustan.

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"From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Main Author: Boustan, Leah Platt (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Series:NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Subjects:
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
Rural-urban migration > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Economic conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
HISTORY / Social History.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Migrations.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Migration, Internal.
Rural-urban migration.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xv, 197 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Black migration from the South in historical context
  • Who left the South and how did they fare?
  • Competition in northern labor markets
  • Black migration, white flight
  • Motivations for white flight : the role of fiscal/political interactions
  • Black migration, northern cities, and labor markets after 1970.