Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities

. Ed(s): Ong, Paul; Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia

ISBN 10: 1592134106 / ISBN 13: 9781592134106

Published by Temple University Press,U.S., 2006

About this Item

Planners and policy makers need to reformulate community economic development in ways that account for the particularities of different minority groups. This book considers these challenges by examining case studies of economic development and job creation in different physical and social settings across the nation. Editor(s): Ong, Paul; Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia. Num Pages: 314 pages, 13 b&w illustrations, 38 tables, 5 maps, 4 figures. BIC Classification: JHMP; JPQB; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435. . 2006. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592134106
• ISBN 13: 9781592134106
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Paul Ong is Director of the Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the co-editor of The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring (Temple).

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Professor and Chair of Urban Planning in the School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is co-author of Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form.