Jobs And Economic Development in Minority Communities

by Ong, Paul M.; Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia

• ISBN13: 9781592134090
• ISBN10: 1592134092
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-28
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

Community economic development offers a promise of greater employment, but job opportunities have been slow to develop in minority neighbourhoods. After decades of efforts to combat poverty, wages are low, benefits are scarce, and employment is unstable in these communities. The structural forces that have created impoverished neighbourhoods are likely to become even more powerful as globalization intensifies, economic and spatial restructuring continues, and the ethnic composition of the population changes. Planners and policy makers need to rethink and reformulate community economic development in ways that account for the particularities of different minority groups. A problem as pervasive and entrenched as structural unemployment cannot be approached with a "fits all" strategy. This book considers these new challenges by examining case studies of economic development and job creation in different physical and social settings across the nation to forge a new agenda for community economic development in minority neighbourhoods.

Table of Contents

Introduction Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities: Realities, Challenges, and Innovation	1	(12)
Paul Ong and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Part I The Context
1 Metropolitan Dispersion and Diversity: Implications for Community Economic Development	13	(27)
Evelyn Blumenberg
2 Impacts of the New Social Policy Regime	40	(23)
Douglas Houston and Paul Ong
3 The Regional Nexus: The Promise and Risk of Community-Based Approaches to Metropolitan Equity	63	(28)
Manuel Pastor, Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka
Part II Labor Market Development
4 Workforce Development in Minority Communities	91	(28)
Michael A. Stoll
5 Employment Opportunities Beyond the 'Hood: African American and Hispanic Applicants in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia	119	(22)
Michela M. Zonta
6 Economic Development in Latino Communities: Incorporating Marginal and Immigrant Workers	141	(20)
Abel Valenzuela Jr.
Part III Business Development
7 The Role of Black-Owned Businesses in Black Community Development	161	(15)
Thomas D. Boston
8 New York City's Asian Immigrant Economies: Community Development Needs and Challenges	176	(37)
Tarry Hum
9 Indian Gaming as Community Economic Development	213
Ted Jojola and Paul Ong
Part IV Complementary Strategies
10 Social Networks and Social Capital: Latinos in Pico-Union	235	(22)
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Judy Hutchinson
11 Linking Housing to Community Economic Development with Community Benefits Agreements: The Case of The Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice	257	(20)
Jacqueline Leavitt
12 Synchronizing Social Services with Labor Market Participation: Implications for Community Economic Development in Minority Neighborhoods	277	(18)
Lois M. Takahashi
Conclusion Lessons for Community Economic Development	295	(6)
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Paul Ong
Contributors	301	(10)
Index	311