02882nam 2200589 a 450 991077892770332120230725055948.01-283-86443-60-8135-5197-8(CKB)2550000000084249(EBL)858949(OCoLC)775872913(SSID)ssj0000612447(PQKBManifestationID)11387966(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612447(PQKBWorkID)10570251(PQKB)11559966(MiAaPQ)EBC858949(MdBmJHUP)muse19665(Au-PeEL)EBL858949(CaPaEBR)ebr10534356(CaONFJC)MIL417693(EXLCZ)99255000000008424920101126d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOpportunity denied[electronic resource] limiting Black women to devalued work /Enobong Hannah BranchNew Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20111 online resource (209 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-5122-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. 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 woAfrican American womenEmploymentHistorySex discrimination against womenHistoryDiscrimination in employmentHistoryAfrican American womenEmploymentHistory.Sex discrimination against womenHistory.Discrimination in employmentHistory.331.4089/96073Branch Enobong Hannah1983-1506827MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778927703321Opportunity denied3737219UNINA