Unemployed Muslim migrants flocking to cities were excluded from half of industrial jobs.
Evidence
Here they found that nearly half of all available jobs in industry were firmly occupied by the pied noir eleven per cent, while twenty-five per cent of the urban Muslims were unemployed. The results were that during the twelve years between 1936 and 1948, as an example, the population of Algiers soared by forty-two per cent and with it the mushrooming of wretched bidonvilles and the simmering of new kinds of urban discontent. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 186
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the Latin American ‘gravitation to cities’ pattern noted earlier in the paragraph, connecting Algerian urbanization to comparative colonial/postcolonial studies.