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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457197103321

Autore

Branch Enobong Hannah <1983->

Titolo

Opportunity denied [[electronic resource] ] : limiting Black women to devalued work / / Enobong Hannah Branch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-86443-6

0-8135-5197-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

331.4089/96073

Soggetti

African American women - Employment - History

Sex discrimination against women - History

Discrimination in employment - History

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hierarchies of preference at work : the need for an intersectional approach -- As good as any man : Black women in farm labor -- Excellent servants : domestic service as Black women's work -- Existing on the industrial fringe : Black women in the factory -- You're blues ain't nothing like mine : race and gender as keys to occupational -- Opportunity -- The illusion of progress : Black women's work in the post-civil rights era.

Sommario/riassunto

Opportunity Denied is the first comprehensive look at changes in race, gender, and women's work across time, comparing the labor force experiences of Black women to White women, Black men and White men. From free Black women in 1860 to Black women in 2008, the experience of discrimination in seeking and keeping a job has been determinedly constant. Branch focuses on occupational segregation before 1970 and situates the findings of contemporary studies in a broad historical context, illustrating how inequality can grow and become entrenched over time through the institution of wo