@voxdotcom and are they better than the also historically hard, low-wage jobs that that community has had for decades?
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Richmond's history as a place that's relegated workers of color to the worst, most disposable jobs https://books.google.com/books?id=7E4RAcifvggC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=richmond+black+workers+laid+off+shipyard&source=bl&ots=zDeXEnf9s6&sig=rDt7ZcwaO1zRBKft8Btn8eQSlGc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJrbLPyLzPAhUCwmMKHWs3A1YQ6AEIKjAF#v=onepage&q=richmond%20black%20workers%20laid%20off%20shipyard&f=false …
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they were brought in for WWII then discarded when the war ended. Had to organize against job discrimination for decades.
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I meant to respond to this yesterday, but I don't think you can just call Richmond a "historically crime-dogged city" w/out
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showing that whatever Blue Apron, Amazon, etc. are doing is an echo of the peripheral role that labor in the city has served
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for literally decades, from shipyards to service work & beyond. And the lack of upward mobility in the types of work that have
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been there for decades manifest in poverty, higher rates of crime, etc.
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