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Capital, Competition, and Discrimination: A Reconsideration of Racial Earnings Inequality

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  • Rhonda M. Williams

    (New School for Social Research, New York.)

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Where as neoclassical economists have responded to the theoretical irreconcilability of competition and discrimination by abandoning serious consideration of the latter, radical political economists have generally embraced the neoclassical formulation of competition while simultaneously arguing that capitalists benefit, and white workers lose from discrimination. This paper offers an alternative formulation. By deploying a specifically Marxian notion of competition, the author both restores a logical place for discrimination in competitive capitalist society and examines the material conditions conducive to the reproduction of racial conflict. In so doing, she challenges the notion that white workers unambiguously lose from discrimination and identifies the conditions under which racially dominant workers gain from the reproduction of racial inequality.

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  • Rhonda M. Williams, 1987. "Capital, Competition, and Discrimination: A Reconsideration of Racial Earnings Inequality," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 19(2), pages 1-15, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:19:y:1987:i:2:p:1-15
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    1. Niki Dickerson, 2002. "Is Racial Exclusion Gendered? The Role of Residential Segregation in the Employment Status of Black Women and Men in the US," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 199-208.
    2. Patrick Mason, 1992. "The divide-and-conquer and employer/ employee models of discrimination: Neoclassical competition as a familial defect," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer;National Economic Association, vol. 20(4), pages 73-89, June.
    3. Ellen Mutari & Deborah Figart & Marilyn Power, 2001. "Implicit Wage Theories in Equal Pay Debates in the United States," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(2), pages 23-52.
    4. Shireen AlAzzawi, 2013. "Did Trade Liberalization Benefit Female Workers? Evidence on Wage and Employment Effects from Egypt," Working Papers 787, Economic Research Forum, revised Oct 2013.

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