Examines the question of whether or not whites gain economically from economic discrimination against Third World people with evidence from the 1970 U.S. census. It is found that whites do not gain from economic discrimination; on the contrary, white working people actually lose economically from such discrimination. It is argues that racism is a…

Compares black and white workers on positions in the occupational structure and income levels while controlling a number of related factors that were not possible to include in earlier studies; data are derived from a larger study of applicants for disability benefits under the Social Security program. (Author/JM)

This study examined how the socioeconomic characteristics of male workers from poverty areas in Saint Louis, Missouri, San Antonio, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois, affect their incomes, hours of employment, unemployment, and labor force participation. The research was based on statistical analysis, using an interaction model, of data from the 1970…