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Author: Power, Marilyn
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Power, Marilyn Rosenberg, Sam |
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Black Women Clerical Workers: Movement Toward Equality with White Women? Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 32,2 (May 1993): 223-237. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1993.tb01028.x/abstract Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley Keyword(s): Mobility; Racial Equality/Inequality; Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article examines the occupational mobility patterns of black and white female clerical workers from 1972 to 1980. Black women were initially concentrated in the lower-paying clerical positions and were less likely than white women to leave for better jobs in other areas. Those black women who had relatively good clerical jobs tended not to rise any further and even experienced some difficulty in maintaining their occupational status. Education and training aided occupational mobility less for black women than for white women. |
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Power, Marilyn and Sam Rosenberg. "Black Women Clerical Workers: Movement Toward Equality with White Women?" Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 32,2 (May 1993): 223-237.
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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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