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Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Black Women in the Labor Force
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Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Black Women in the Labor Force
Author: Phyllis Ann WallacePublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780262730631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
A comprehensive analysis of the economic literature on black women workers, offering forthright recommendations for improving their status in the labor market.
Women in the Labor Force
Author: Opportunity Denied
Author: Enobong BranchPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813551978
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Blacks and Whites. Men and Women. Historically, each group has held very different types of jobs. The divide between these jobs was stark—clean or dirty, steady or inconsistent, skilled or unskilled. In such a rigidly segregated occupational landscape, race and gender radically limited labor opportunities, relegating Black women to the least desirable jobs. Opportunity Denied is the first comprehensive look at changes in race, gender, and women’s work across time, comparing the labor force experiences of Black women to White women, Black men and White men. Enobong Hannah Branch merges empirical data with rich historical detail, offering an original overview of the evolution of Black women’s work. From free Black women in 1860 to Black women in 2008, the experience of discrimination in seeking and keeping a job has been determinedly constant. Branch focuses on occupational segregation before 1970 and situates the findings of contemporary studies in a broad historical context, illustrating how inequality can grow and become entrenched over time through the institution of work.
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
Author: LaShawn HarrisPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252098420
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal economy. LaShawn Harris illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground industry: sex work, numbers running for gambling enterprises, and the supernatural consulting business. Mining police and prison records, newspaper accounts, and period literature, Harris teases out answers to essential questions about these women and their working lives. She also offers a surprising revelation, arguing that the burgeoning underground economy served as a catalyst in working-class black women TMs creation of the employment opportunities, occupational identities, and survival strategies that provided them with financial stability and a sense of labor autonomy and mobility. At the same time, urban black women, all striving for economic and social prospects and pleasures, experienced the conspicuous and hidden dangers associated with newfound labor opportunities.
Latinas and African American Women at Work
Author: Irene BrownePublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610440943
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
One of Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Books of 1999 Accepted wisdom about the opportunities available to African American and Latina women in the U.S. labor market has changed dramatically. Although the 1970s saw these women earning almost as much as their white counterparts, in the 1980s their relative wages began falling behind, and the job prospects plummeted for those with little education and low skills. At the same time, African American women more often found themselves the sole support of their families. While much social science research has centered on the problems facing black male workers, Latinas and African American Women at Work offers a comprehensive investigation into the eroding progress of these women in the U.S. labor market. The prominent sociologists and economists featured in this volume describe how race and gender intersect to especially disadvantage black and Latina women. Their inquiries encompass three decades of change for women at all levels of the workforce, from those who spend time on the welfare rolls to middle class professionals. Among the many possible sources of increased disadvantage, they particularly examine the changing demands for skills, increasing numbers of immigrants in the job market, the precariousness of balancing work and childcare responsibilities, and employer discrimination. While racial inequity in hiring often results from educational differences between white and minority women, this cannot explain the discrimination faced by women with higher skills. Minority women therefore face a two-tiered hurdle based on race and gender. Although the picture for young African American women has grown bleaker overall, for Latina women, the story is more complex, with a range of economic outcomes among Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Central and South Americans. Latinas and African American Women at Work reveals differences in how professional African American and white women view their position in the workforce, with black women perceiving more discrimination, for both race and gender, than whites. The volume concludes with essays that synthesize the evidence about racial and gender-based obstacles in the labor market. Given the current heated controversy over female and minority employment, as well as the recent sweeping changes to the national welfare system, the need for empirical data to inform the public debate about disadvantaged women is greater than ever before. The important findings in Latinas and African American Women at Work substantially advance our understanding of social inequality and the pervasive role of race, ethnicity and gender in the economic well-being of American women.
Human Capital in History
Author: Leah Platt BoustanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022616389X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
This volume honours the contributions Claudia Goldin has made to scholarship and teaching in economic history and labour economics. The chapters address some closely integrated issues: the role of human capital in the long-term development of the American economy, trends in fertility and marriage, and women's participation in economic change.
Women in the labor force
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Black Women in the Workplace
Author: Bette WoodyPublisher: Praeger
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Examines how changes in the economy have affected the work and opportunities of black women since the 1970s. Based partially on Current Population Survey data and on interviews conducted with black women. Considers the future of black women in the labour force up to the year 2000.
The Labor Force Patterns of Single Women
Author: Allyson Sherman GrossmanPublisher:
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Category : Single women
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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