Lone pursuit
Subtitle: distrust and uncooperativeness among black poor jobseekers and jobholders
By: Sandra Susan Smith.
Publisher: The Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780871547736
Subjects: African Americans -- Employment -- Michigan; Unemployed -- Psychology -- Michigan; Unemployed -- Services for -- Michigan; Discrimination in employment -- Michigan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Explaining persistent black joblessness; title: Pervasive distrust and uncooperativeness among the black poor; title: The jobholder : espousing tenets of American individualism; title: The jobseeker : embracing individualism defensively; title: The job center : barriers to employment and the (im)mobilization of institutional social capital; title: Conclusion.