ISBN:
9780803950597
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (305 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Women and Work: A Research and Policy Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Women and Work : Vol 6: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Class
DDC:
158.7088042
Keywords:
Women ; United States ; Economic conditions
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Women ; United States ; Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
How race, ethnicity and social class shape the working lives, working conditions and wages of women is explored in this collection of original research articles. With the emphasis on women from non-white or working-class backgrounds, Women and Work assesses women's abilities to control their work environments, how they see themselves and their options in the work place. Throughout, the collection addresses such topics as the integration of work and family, women's vision of their own work and consciousness as employees, and women's resistance to exploitative and limiting work
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover Page; Contents; Series Editors' Introduction; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I - Historical and Economic Perspectives; Chapter 1 - An Economic Profile of Women in the United States; Chapter 2 - Speaking Up: The Politics of Black Women's Labor History; Part II - Manufacturing and Domestic Service; Chapter 3 - The Evolution of Alohawear: Colonialism, Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Hawaii's Garment Industry; Chapter 4 - Women's Resistance in the Sun Belt: Anglos and Hispanas Respond to Managerial Control
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5 - Working "Without Papers" in the United States: Toward the Integration of Legal Status in Frameworks of Race, Class, and GenderPart III - Health Care, Professions, Managerial Positions, and Entrepreneurship; Chapter 6 - Class Experience and Conflict i n a Feminist Workplace: A Case Study; Chapter 7 - Black and White Professional-Managerial Women's Perceptions of Racism and Sexism in the Workplace; Chapter 8 - Korean Immigrant Wives' Labor Force Participation, Marital Power, and Status; Part IV - Working for a Better Community: Dilemmas in Building Solidarity
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9 - Working-Class Mexican American Women and "Voluntarism": "We Have to Do It!"Chapter 10 - The Third Shift: Black Women's Club Activities in Denver, 1900-1925; Epilogue; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Contributors
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