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Title Women and work : exploring race, ethnicity, and class / editors, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Mary Romero
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Series Women and work, 0882-0910 ; v. 6
Women and work (Beverly Hills, Calif.) ; v. 6.
Contents Introduction / Elizabeth Higginbotham -- An economic profile of women in the United States / Barbara J. Robles -- Speaking up : the politics of Black women's labor history / Sharon Harley -- The evolution of Alohawear : colonialism, race, ethnicity, class, and gender in Hawaii's garment industry / Joyce N. Chinen -- Women's resistance in the Sun Belt : Anglos and Hispanics respond to managerial control / Louise Lamphere and Patricia Zavella -- Working "without papers" in the United States : toward the integration of legal status in frameworks of race, class, and gender / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- Class experience and conflict in a feminist workplace : a case study / Sandra Morgen -- Black and white professional-managerial women's perceptions of racism and sexism in the workplace / Lynn Weber and Elizabeth Higginbotham -- Korean immigrant wives' labor force participation : marital power, and status / Pyong Gap Min -- Working-class Mexican American women and "voluntarism" : "We have to do it!" / Mary Pardo -- The third shift : Black women's club activities in Denver, 1900-1925 / Linda F. Dickson -- Epilogue / Mary Romero
Summary This collection of original research articles explores how race, ethnicity, and social class have shaped the work lives of women. Women and Work explores women's 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 women - groups that are often neglected in other treatments of this subject. 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 are themes also addressed throughout this book. Written by an 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, women's history, and economics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed March 17, 2015)
Subject Women -- United States -- Economic conditions
Women -- United States -- Social conditions
Social classes -- United States
Ethnicity -- United States
Women -- Employment -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Women -- Employment.
Ethnicity.
Social classes.
Women -- Economic conditions.
Frauenarbeit
Soziale Situation
Women -- Social conditions.
Aufsatzsammlung
Ethnic relations.
Werkende vrouwen.
Femmes -- Travail -- États-Unis.
Immigrés clandestins -- Travail -- États-Unis.
Femmes appartenant à des minorités -- États-Unis.
Noires américaines -- Conditions sociales -- États-Unis.
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
Subject United States.
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Higginbotham, Elizabeth.
Romero, Mary.
ISBN 9781452246642
1452246645