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John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer

John Schmitt is a senior economist and Ben Zipperer is a research assistant at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. Click here for a PDF version of the complete report

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The African-American Decline In Unions and Manufacturing

By John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer

Introduction For much of the postwar period, a higher share of African-American workers have been in unions than workers from other racial and ethnic backgrounds. As union representation and union coverage have declined for the country as a whole, unionization rates for African-Americans have fallen more quickly than for the rest of the workforce. Black…

Introduction For much of the postwar period, a higher share of African-American workers have been in unions than workers from other racial and ethnic backgrounds. As…

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