Complex Inequality: Gender, Class and Race in the New Economy

by McCall,Leslie

• ISBN13: 9780415929042
• ISBN10: 0415929040
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-05-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The American economy is in good shape: profits are soaring, employment is expanding, and technological advances abound. Yet inequality between genders and among races still exists. InComplex Inequality, Leslie McCall sifts through the complexities surrounding wage differences and economic restructuring to provide an important new understanding of the differences gender, race, and class make in inequality. McCall's vision of inequality will offer a new way to approach and address the complexities of inequality.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Figures	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction
Restructuring Inequalities: A Gender, Class, and Race Perspective	3	(26)
Part I
Configurations of Inequality: Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race	29	(32)
Industrial and Postindustrial Configurations of Inequality: Detroit and Dallas	61	(30)
Part II
Breaking the Connection: Occupational Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap	91	(28)
The Difference Class Makes: The Gender Wage Gap among the College- and Non-College-Educated	119	(26)
The Difference Gender Makes: Wage Inequality among Women and among Men	145	(30)
Conclusion
The History and Politics of Inequality Reconsidered	175	(18)
Technical Appendix	193	(10)
Notes	203	(10)
References	213	(16)
Index	229