Black Women in the Labor Force
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : African American women |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : African American women |
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Author | : Phyllis Ann Wallace |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262730631 |
A comprehensive analysis of the economic literature on black women workers, offering forthright recommendations for improving their status in the labor market.
Author | : Enobong Branch |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2011-09-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813551978 |
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.
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Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Social surveys |
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Author | : Leah Platt Boustan |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2014-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022616389X |
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.
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Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : Irene Browne |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2000-10-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1610440943 |
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.
Author | : Bette Woody |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1992-05-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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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.
Author | : LaShawn Harris |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2016-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252098420 |
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.
Author | : Claudia Goldin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022653264X |
Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this so? Today’s older American women work full-time jobs at greater rates than women in other developed countries. In Women Working Longer, editors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz assemble new research that presents fresh insights on the phenomenon of working longer. Their findings suggest that education and work experience earlier in life are connected to women’s later-in-life work. Other contributors to the volume investigate additional factors that may play a role in late-life labor supply, such as marital disruption, household finances, and access to retirement benefits. A pioneering study of recent trends in older women’s labor force participation, this collection offers insights valuable to a wide array of social scientists, employers, and policy makers.