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Women and Work

Vol 6: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Class
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This work explores how race, ethnicity and social class shape the working lives, working conditions and wages of women from non-white, non-citizen or working-class backgrounds. The contributors address such topics as : the abilities of these women to control their work environments; the self-view of these women and their options in the work place; the integration of work and family; women's vision of their own work and consciousness as employees; and women's resistance to exploitative and limiting work.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Introduction - Elizabeth Higginbotham PART TWO: HISTORICAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES Introduction - Elizabeth Higginbotham An Economic Profile of Women in the United States - Barbara Robles Speaking Up - Sharon Harley The Politics of Black Women's Labor History PART THREE: MANUFACTURING AND DOMESTIC SERVICE Introduction - Mary Romero The Evolution of `Alohawear' - Joyce Chinen Colonialism, Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Hawaii's Garment Industry Everyday Work Experiences - Louise Lamphere Mexican American and Anglo Women in the Sunbelt Factories Working `without Papers' in the US - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Towards the Integration of Legal Status in Frameworks of Race, Class and Gender PART FOUR: HEALTH CARE, PROFESSIONS, MANAGERIAL AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP Introduction - Elizabeth Higginbotham Class Experience and Conflict in Feminist Workplaces - Sandra Morgen A Case Study Black and White Professional-Managerial Women's Perceptions of Racism and Sexism in the Workplace - Lynn Weber and Elizabeth Higginbotham Immigrant Entrepreneurship, the Increase in Wife's Economic Role and Unequal Social Rewards - Pyong Gap Min Koreans in New York City PART FIVE: WORKING FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: DILEMMAS IN BUILDING SOLIDARITY Introduction - Mary Romero Working-Class Mexican American Women and `Voluntarism' - Mary Pardo `We Had to Do It' The Third Shift - Lynda Dickson Black Women's Club Activities in Denver, 1900-1925 PART SIX: EPILOG Epilogue - Mary Romero
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