Business Biases & Building Blocks

Racial Profiling In The Labor Market ... What's In A Name?

Submitted by Sandra Carr on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 00:00
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A store going out of business next door to a business hiring

Nowadays your name may say it all when you’re looking for a job. U.S. Research found that some employers might schedule an interview with an applicant based on the name they see on the resume because of their perception that the individual is of a specific race or ethnicity. The other candidates may have the same job qualifications as their counterparts, but face a roadblock because of their names.

Florida Farm Workers Demand Basic Human Rights For All Ethnicities

Submitted by Ann Marina on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 00:00
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flowering tomato plant

Cruz Salucio gets up at 4:30 every morning and leaves the tiny trailer he shares with nine other farm workers in Immokalee, FL. The 25-year-old Guatemalan joins a crowd of tomato pickers in a vacant lot by the general store. Farmers arrive before sunrise, lumbering along in old school buses to pick up workers.

"In the harvesting season, there's plenty of work," Salucio says. "But as the crops decrease, so do our working hours and resulting paychecks."

Entrepreneurship Across Continent And Culture: The Impact of Tribalism and Ethnic Networks

Submitted by Samuel Abonyo on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 23:00
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Believe it or not, tribalism is beneficial to Kenyans. What Kenyans bemoan is ”negative tribalism,” which is detrimental to their country. However, unlike negative tribalism, ”positive tribalism” benefits Kenya, according to John Lonsdale, a historian, Jomo Kenyatta believed positive tribalism fostered enterprise. Although ethnic networks facilitate entrepreneurship, tribalism is anything but favorable to enterprise.