Blacks did participate in the dual labor market. Labor market dualism represents the division of American jobs into more or less discrete segments based on the quality of the jobs. These segments include very good jobs and very bad jobs. In the earlier part of the century American blacks were generally relegated to the very bad jobs. These jobs typically had very little pay, benefits, and no job
. security. As a result of being on the lower rung of society and receiving less pay and more instability in addition to segregation an ugly cycle was created and enforced.
