Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities

摘要

The forces of economic restructuring, globalisation and suburbanisation, coupled with changes in social policies over the last four decades in the United States, have reduced expectations in respect of revitalising ethnic and minority neighbourhoods. Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communi- for minority communities through legally enforceable contracts) that is most interesting. The editors conclude that flexible, yet specialised community economic development strategies promoting greater access and linkage to opportunities and resources (beyond inner cities) for-minority communities - in terms of the governance of services, as well as their utilisation - will be crucial to addressing both old and emerging problems, especially in an era of intensifying globalisation and economic and spatial restructuring. In this sense, while such conclusions are eminently acceptable and relevant, two key issues emerge, one of which has already been alluded to throughout this review. First, the focus on the US - and by implication the key issues and messages emerging from the case study material given that this is an edited collection - would potentially benefit from a comparative approach with other areas, such as Europe or indeed parts of the developing world (for example, are processes of marginalisation and labour and business development similar in both their form and outcomes elsewhere?