Women and Work
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Women and Work

Vol 6: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Class

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Women and Work

Vol 6: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Class

About this book

This collection of original research articles explores how race, ethnicity, and social class have shaped the work lives of women. Women and Work explores womenÆs working conditions, their wages and salaries, their abilities to control their work environments, and how they see themselves and their options in the workplace. A great deal of importance is given to women of color, non-citizens, and working-class womenùgroups that are often neglected in other treatments of this subject. The integration of work and family, womenÆs vision of their own work and consciousness as employees, and womenÆs resistance to exploitative and limiting work are themes are also addressed throughout this book. Written by and interdisciplinary group of women scholars, Women and Work will be of interest to faculty, researchers, and advanced students in the fields of sociology, organization studies, psychology, gender studies, womenÆs history, and economics.

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Yes, you can access Women and Work by Elizabeth Higginbotham,Mary Romero, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Mary A. Romero in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Contents
  3. Series Editors’ Introduction
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I - Historical and Economic Perspectives
  7. Chapter 1 - An Economic Profile of Women in the United States
  8. Chapter 2 - Speaking Up: The Politics of Black Women’s Labor History
  9. Part II - Manufacturing and Domestic Service
  10. Chapter 3 - The Evolution of Alohawear: Colonialism, Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Hawaii’s Garment Industry
  11. Chapter 4 - Women’s Resistance in the Sun Belt: Anglos and Hispanas Respond to Managerial Control
  12. Chapter 5 - Working “Without Papers” in the United States: Toward the Integration of Legal Status in Frameworks of Race, Class, and Gender
  13. Part III - Health Care, Professions, Managerial Positions, and Entrepreneurship
  14. Chapter 6 - Class Experience and Conflict i n a Feminist Workplace: A Case Study
  15. Chapter 7 - Black and White Professional-Managerial Women’s Perceptions of Racism and Sexism in the Workplace
  16. Chapter 8 - Korean Immigrant Wives’ Labor Force Participation, Marital Power, and Status
  17. Part IV - Working for a Better Community: Dilemmas in Building Solidarity
  18. Chapter 9 - Working-Class Mexican American Women and “Voluntarism”: “We Have to Do It!”
  19. Chapter 10 - The Third Shift: Black Women’s Club Activities in Denver, 1900-1925
  20. Epilogue
  21. Author Index
  22. Subject Index
  23. About the Contributors