Women and Work Vol 6: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Class

by Elizabeth Higginbotham; Mary Romero

• ISBN13: 9780803950580
• ISBN10: 0803950586
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-12
• Publisher: Sage Publications

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 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.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION - Elizabeth Higginbotham

Introduction

PART TWO: HISTORICAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES - Elizabeth Higginbotham

Introduction - Barbara Robles

An Economic Profile of Women in the United States - Sharon Harley

Speaking Up

The Politics of Black Women's Labor History

PART THREE: MANUFACTURING AND DOMESTIC SERVICE - Mary Romero

Introduction - Joyce Chinen

The Evolution of `Alohawear'

Colonialism, Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Hawaii's Garment Industry - Louise Lamphere

Everyday Work Experiences

Mexican American and Anglo Women in the Sunbelt Factories - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Working `without Papers' in the US

Towards the Integration of Legal Status in Frameworks of Race, Class and Gender

PART FOUR: HEALTH CARE, PROFESSIONS, MANAGERIAL AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP - Elizabeth Higginbotham

Introduction - Sandra Morgen

Class Experience and Conflict in Feminist Workplaces

A Case Study - Lynn Weber and Elizabeth Higginbotham

Black and White Professional-Managerial Women's Perceptions of Racism and Sexism in the Workplace - Pyong Gap Min

Immigrant Entrepreneurship, the Increase in Wife's Economic Role and Unequal Social Rewards

Koreans in New York City

PART FIVE: WORKING FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: DILEMMAS IN BUILDING SOLIDARITY - Mary Romero

Introduction - Mary Pardo

Working-Class Mexican American Women and `Voluntarism'

`We Had to Do It' - Lynda Dickson

The Third Shift

Black Women's Club Activities in Denver, 1900-1925

PART SIX: EPILOG - Mary Romero

Epilogue