Job polarisation and the decline of middle-class workers’ wages

Re:Job polarisation and the decline of middle-class workers’... by yummyfajitas on Thursday February 13, 2014 @02:23PM (#7233591)

I'm pretty sure that black males are less economically disenfranchised today than in the past, in spite of increases in inequality. For example, we no longer have Jim Crow laws attempting to correct the excesses of capitalism (greedy employers hiring blacks instead of whites).

A quick google search suggests black men are less sexually disenfranchized than non-blacks.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/07/20/sex-statist...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19374216/#.Uv0a2HX_SFk

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Re:Job polarisation and the decline of middle-class workers’... by ItendToDisagree on Thursday February 13, 2014 @02:39PM (#7233709)

But are they still economically disenfranchised? The degree doesn't really matter much in terms of what the parent is saying to my thinking.

It also isn't necessarily true that the change in the level of disenfranchisement is due to growth, or change in anything having to do with the economy, so much as due to changes brought on by the civil rights movements. Things can change on a societal level without being impacted by or impacting directly things at an economic level.

The social instability mentioned in the parent is still going on even with these advances. Just saying 'its better than it was' doesn't make it not a thing.

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