Jamelle Bouie認証済みアカウント

These retail jobs—in clothing and apparel, department store, etc—are disproportionately held by women, and women of color in particular.

Some useful data here. https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18.htm …

The political salience of an industry is tied to how that particular kind of work is raced and gendered.

Which is just to say that our ideas of citizenship and worth are still raced and gendered.

A jobs crisis that hits women, and black women in particular, will not inspire the same national attention as one that hits white men.

You won't have politicians barnstorming the country promising to reopen the malls and department stores.

And this is beyond the fact that the perceived worth of those jobs—what we think laborers can expect in compensation—is also tied to this.

(See the incredulity and outrage in some quarters at the idea that a fast food worker deserves a living wage.)

I’d argue that this has nothing to do with race. I study this topic on the daily. Yes, we will lose the jobs but the suburbs will lose more.

I think that we don’t hear politicians talking about it because it’s the scariest shit I’ve seen since residential real estate’s ’07 bust.

The middle America who fled urban areas to suburbs with strip malls will be crushed while every city spends on downtown resurgence.

Home prices “outside the loop” will crater causing a flight to the center. *That* is when gentrification’s acceleration will cause issues.

yup. would love to see a survey of DC/NYC journalists to see who has ever worked full time in retail/service/manufacturing/fast food

Retail jobs also geographically dispersed unlike coal jobs to which pols pander b/c they're concentrated in 6states (12 senate seats/74 EVs)

Did you even read the rest of this guys tweets before you RT'd him Ines?

I wonder how quick the 'retail isn't adult work' takes will come