On nakedness at work

Jones, Domenique

doi:10.1136/bmj.e1368

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“…Racist hiring and employment conditions still obtained, but relatively low unemployment for Black workers in the first decade following the Second World War meant that Black workers could reap a portion, albeit undersized, of the swelling new abundance. 36 Yet well into the 1960s, employers continued to relegate Black workers to low-skill and semi-skilled industrial jobs. As late as the turn of 1960, for example, barely 1 percent of participants in United Auto Workers skilled trades apprenticeship programs were Black, and this in a CIO union that styled itself a champion of civil rights.…”

Section: Racism and The Industrial Meaning Of Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Myth of Black Obsolescence

Resnikoff¹

2022

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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A few years ago, the global consulting firm McKinsey and Company began issuing a series of increasingly urgent reports concerning “automation” and the future of work. Defining automation broadly as artificial intelligence and “other digital technologies,” the company promised in its reports that it could advise companies how they might prepare. Amidst this flurry of publication, McKinsey produced several articles specifically on the theme of “The Future of Work in Black America.” With “a new and proprietary data set”—a data set so proprietary readers were not privileged to see it—McKinsey claimed that “automation” would hurt the job prospects of Black Americans, and in particular Black men, more deeply and more broadly than any other demographic group in the United States. The jobs Black people held, McKinsey seemed to believe, were precisely those best performed by robots. For McKinsey's analysts, this conclusion was all but obvious when one considered, first, the racist exclusion of Black Americans from the resources of society, and second, the levels of education required to obtain the jobs Black people in America disproportionately hold, like “truck drivers, food service workers, and office clerks.”

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Section: Racism and The Industrial Meaning Of Workmentioning

confidence: 99%