AbstractsSociology

The occupational adjustments of Montreal Negroes, 1941-48.

by Harold herbert Potter




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Sociology.
Degree: MA.
Year: 1949
Keywords: Blacks  – Employment  – Québec (Province)  – Montréal.; Blacks  – Québec (Province)  – Montréal.
Record ID: 1494035
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile114113.pdf


Abstract

Note: There is a growing body of literature dealing with the division of labour between ethnic groups.* The major works in this field are Lord Olivier1s "White Capital and Coloured Labourf,(l) and Gunnar l/tyrdal's "An American Dilemma"(2). The former, published in 1929, described the formal organization of labour in the Union of South Africa on a racial basis; and the latter work, published in 1944, described both formal and informal efforts to effect divisions of labour on a Negro-white basis in the United States of America. [...]