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Title: Race, Class, and Occupational Mobility: Black and White Women in Service Work in the United States
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Power, Marilyn Rosenberg, Sam |
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Race, Class, and Occupational Mobility: Black and White Women in Service Work in the United States Feminist Economics 1,3 (Fall 1995): 40-59. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/714042248 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Routledge ==> Taylor & Francis (1998) Keyword(s): Black Youth; Mobility, Occupational; Racial Differences; Social Roles; Women Data from the 1972 & 1988 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women are drawn on to compare the occupational mobility of 135 black & 261 white women who worked in service occupations in the US in their late teens & 20s. A descriptive methodology is used to help illuminate the complex interaction of race, gender, & class in the lives of these women, focusing on exploring how being a service worker when young contributed to a different life story for women of different races & classes. Analysis indicates that black women experienced considerably less occupational mobility than white women, & were far more likely to get stuck in low-paid service occupations over the long term. Many of the white women, but few of the black, were able to use service work as a temporary means of support while they prepared themselves for more lucrative employment. Striking differences in class background & presence of children appeared to contribute to racial difference in mobility. 10 Tables, 27 References. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1996, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) |
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Power, Marilyn and Sam Rosenberg. "Race, Class, and Occupational Mobility: Black and White Women in Service Work in the United States." Feminist Economics 1,3 (Fall 1995): 40-59.
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