Origin of the factoid-prevailing wage laws are remnant Jim Crow laws

Opponents of the Federal Davis-Bacon Act contend that this law has racial bias, and that keeping African-Americans out of the construction industry was the original intent of the law. This paper addresses the latter issue by examining congressional records to unveil the original intentions behind passage of the Davis-Bacon Act. It also examines how false assertions or "factoids" are manufactured in the society by think tanks.

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Azari-Rad, Hamid ; Philips, Peter
Published in:	Review of Radical Political Economics. - Union for Radical Political Economics. - Vol. 34.2002, 3, p. 275-284
Publisher:	Union for Radical Political Economics
Subject:	Wage law \| Discrimination

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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