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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170992803321

Autore

McCall Leslie <1964-, >

Titolo

Complex inequality : gender, class, and race in the new economy / / Leslie McCall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2001

ISBN

0-585-45197-4

0-203-90245-9

1-280-40723-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Perspectives on gender

Disciplina

305

331.13/3/0973

Soggetti

Wages - Women - United States

Sex discrimination in employment - United States

Race discrimination - United States

Social classes - United States

Equal pay for equal work - United States

Pay equity - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Restructuring Inequalities: A Gender, Class, and Race Perspective; Configurations of Inequality: Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race; Industrial and Postindustrial Configurations of Inequality: Detroit and Dallas; Breaking the Connection: Occupational Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap; The Difference Class Makes: The Gender Wage Gap among the College- and Non-College-Educated; The Difference Gender Makes: Wage Inequality among Women and among Men; The History and Politics of Inequality Reconsidered; Technical Appendix; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Complex Inequality sifts through the complexities surrounding wage differences and economic restructuring in the US to provide an important new understanding of the differences gender, race and class make in inequality.