In an ethnographic study of black and white working-class men, Deirdre Royster (2003) found that the job market was

In an ethnographic study of black and white working-class men, Deirdre Royster (2003) found that the job market was Not fair and not meritocratic

Explanation:

Deirdre Royster has put this popular wisdom to a test - revealing the subtleties and inequalities of a place of work in the Race and the Invisible Hand which favour the white person looking for jobs above the black one.

Royster is finding a reference in the stories of 25 black and 25 white men from the same vocational school who were looking for work on the same blue collar job market in the beginning of the 1990's.

Having carefully studied the professional successes, work ethics and values of Black men in the sense of particular deprivations, her research shows that young black and white men are the main differences - access to connections that are very relevant in job searches and admission.