| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Opportunity Denied is the first comprehensive look at changes in race, gender, and women & rsquo;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 work. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African American women -- Employment -- History.
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African American women -- Employment. |
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History. |
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African American women. |
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Sex discrimination against women -- History.
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Sex discrimination against women. |
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Discrimination in employment -- History.
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Discrimination in employment. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Branch, Enobong Hannah, 1983- Opportunity denied. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2011 9780813551227 (DLC) 2010048424 (OCoLC)688643384 |
| ISBN |
9780813551975 (electronic book) |
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0813551978 (electronic book) |
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9780813551227 |
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9780813551234 |
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0813551226 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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0813551234 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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