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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Branch, Enobong Hannah, 1983-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Employment--History.

African American women.

Sex discrimination against women--History.

Sex discrimination against women.

Discrimination in employment--History.

Discrimination in employment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-86443-6

0-8135-5197-8

OCLC:

775872913