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Suppose that the rate of progress that Negro workers experienced from 1958 to 1965 continues for another generation, to 1985. The Department of Labor has made projections to 1975 and I have extrapolated these figures forward another decade (see Table...
...numbers is certainly one factor. In June of this year, almost 2 million more teenagers were working than three years earlier, including an extra 163,000 Negro teenagers. And the continued heavy migration of Negroes from rural to urban areas converts the disguised unemployment of low productivity agricultural labor into the open unemployment of the city...
...occupations and professions. Of course, it does not require that Negroes represent exactly the same percentage in every type of profession and every skill; no such uniformity is found among other groups in American society, and differences will inevitably develop because of the uneven geographic distribution of the Negro labor force, and different degrees of interest in various kinds of work. But in terms of broadly defined occupational categories, the sort on which our national employment statistics are organized, a reosonable uniformity is a condition of full equality...
Source: Joe L. Russell, "Changing Patterns in Employment of Nonwhite Workers," Monthly Labor Review...
...Assumes that the nonwhite proportion of employment in each group will increase or decrease at the same rate as in Labor Department Projection 1965-75 (see Joe L. Russell, "Changing Patterns in Employment of Nonwhite Workers," Monthly Labor Review...