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Main Paineframe posted:Poorer people are less likely to know someone at a decent company with the authority to inform hiring/firing decisions, especially early in their career. When you grew up in a lovely neighborhood and went to a lovely college, you've got a much less useful network because most of the people you know are working shitjobs like mopping floors. When you don't have much opportunity, odds are good none of the people you know have much opportunity either. Hell, almost the entire value of fancy colleges like Harvard is in having the opportunity to network with the upper class. Not just poor; There's been plenty of literature (like Royster's Race and the Invisible Hand) that shows black workers have significantly less profitable networks a lot of the time, even when you control for class. Working class, young (~24) black workers generally have access to networks that include work in the service industry as opposed to their white working class counterparts who more often knew parents/friends/teachers/etc who knew someone who knew someone in their field and could help them out a bit. Whites are also pretty likely to believe in some non-existent level of government interference, like affirmative action or welfare, that's helping black workers get ahead and were shown to "counter" this by explicitly only or primarily helping other whites advance in the market. Even if you cut out all racism in the workplace, you'd still have a very unequal amount of white vs black workers (and possibly men vs women), simply because of past and present social networks.
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Branman posted:While we're saying that networking at your university is inherently unjust and nepotism, can we also shout down poor black people networking through their churches as nepotism and unjust? I literally just pointed to a book which shows that black people's social networks are generally less profitable and useful for getting positions with any sort of advancement potential. All groups have social networks, but not all social networks are inherently equal, don't draw false equivalencies.
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Apr 19, 2014 19:15
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