What "Chinese Exclusion" Really Means.

Mears, Eliot G.; Shen, Tso-Chien; Hoy, William

doi:10.2307/2049816

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“…These barriers to apprenticeship further lowered Chinese workers' symbolic capital and pushed them increasingly into unskilled positions in local factories. Indeed, in both California and Australia, low-paid and unskilled manufacturing jobs with insignificant union protection became a Chinese occupation (Shen, 1942). Keeping the Chinese from entering union-sponsored apprenticeship programs legitimized their exclusion from higher-paid skilled jobs on the grounds that they lacked the adequate training needed for them.…”

Section: Symbolic Capital and Split Labor Marketsmentioning

confidence: 99%

True colorsof global economy: In the shadows of racialized capitalism

Prasad

2021

Organization

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This paper unpacks the notion of racial capitalism and highlights its salience for Management and Organization Studies. Racial capitalism is a process of systematically deriving socio-economic value from non-white racial identity groups, and has shaped the contours and trajectories of capitalism for over 500 years. Drawing on the contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois, Bourdieu, and a number of labor historians, we argue that whiteness operates as symbolic capital and status property in market conditions, and is therefore responsible for perpetuating economic inequalities along color lines all over the world. We demonstrate how the extra value placed on whiteness can create a shadowland of split labor markets, colorism, and transnational patterns of expropriation that systematically disadvantage populations of color.

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Section: Symbolic Capital and Split Labor Marketsmentioning

confidence: 99%