Lazonick, William; Moss, Philip; Weitz, Joshua - 2021
middle class by moving into well-paid unionized jobs in capital-intensive mass production industries. At that time, major U ….S. companies paid these blue-collar workers middle-class wages, offered stable employment, and provided employees with health and … programs aimed at urban areas where Blacks lived. By the end of the 1970s, there was an emergent blue-collar Black middle class …