Minority Teenage Fathers: Rights and Responsibilities
Nancy S. James
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In ironic contrast to the economic forces that first brought Africans to North America, some of the most dynamic U.S. industries began to use foreign workers - usually not unionized, and unprotected by minimum wage laws - instead of unskilled urban African-American workers. Unable to obtain the industrial and domestic service jobs that had attracted earlier generations of blacks to urban centers, inner city residents were increasingly mired in economically depressed urban areas that offered few opportunities for upward or outward mobility. The long term movement. of African-Americans from agricultural and domestic services jobs to urban industrial occupations had now become fruitless. By the l980’s the trend among some inner-city African-American was toward family deterioration and declining occupational security.