Listen to Trade Talks Podcast #134:Opportunities and Setbacks for Black Workers in the 20th Century

The first half or so of the podcast deals with a paper on the long-term effects of the Great Migration for black workers in the United States.

Why did a large number of African-American workers move from the South to the North during the first half of the 20th century (include both "push" and "pull" factors)?

What happened in the long-run to opportunities for economic advancement in the cities receiving the most migrants?

The second half talks about the disproportionate effect of the surge in imports from Japan in the 1980s on black workers in manufacturing sectors.

What are some of the hypotheses that the authors of the study cited advanced for why the Japanese import surge disproportionately affected black workers?