Women and work
Subtitle: exploring race, ethnicity, and class
By: editors, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Mary Romero
Contributors: Higginbotham, Elizabeth; Romero, Mary
Series: Women and work -- v. 6; Women and work (Beverly Hills, Calif.) -- v. 6
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Women -- United States -- Economic conditions; Women -- United States -- Social conditions; Social classes -- United States; Ethnicity -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Elizabeth Higginbotham; title: An economic profile of women in the United States / Barbara J. Robles; title: Speaking up : the politics of Black women's labor history / Sharon Harley; title: The evolution of Alohawear : colonialism, race, ethnicity, class, and gender in Hawaii's garment industry / Joyce N. Chinen; title: Women's resistance in the Sun Belt : Anglos and Hispanics respond to managerial control / Louise Lamphere and Patricia Zavella; title: Working "without papers" in the United States : toward the integration of legal status in frameworks of race, class, and gender / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo; title: Class experience and conflict in a feminist workplace : a case study / Sandra Morgen; title: Black and white professional-managerial women's perceptions of racism and sexism in the workplace / Lynn Weber and Elizabeth Higginbotham; title: Korean immigrant wives' labor force participation : marital power, and status / Pyong Gap Min; title: Working-class Mexican American women and "voluntarism" : "We have to do it!" / Mary Pardo; title: The third shift : Black women's club activities in Denver, 1900-1925 / Linda F. Dickson; title: Epilogue / Mary Romero