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This collection of original research articles explores how race, ethnicity, and social class have shaped the work lives of women. Women and Work explores womenÆs working conditions, their wages and salaries, their abilities to control their work environments, and how they see themselves and their options in the workplace. A great deal of importance is given to women of color, non-citizens, and working-class womenùgroups that are often neglected in other treatments of this subject. The integration of work and family, womenÆs vision of their own work and consciousness as employees, and womenÆs resistance to exploitative and limiting work are themes are also addressed throughout this book. Written by and interdisciplinary group of women scholars, Women and Work will be of interest to faculty, researchers, and advanced students in the fields of sociology, organization studies, psychology, gender studies, womenÆs history, and economics.
Class Experience and Conflict in a Feminist Workplace: A Case Study
Class Experience and Conflict in a Feminist Workplace: A Case Study
This chapter contributes to the needed project of problematizing and reconceptualizing class in social theory. It explores the complex process by which Euro-American middle- and working-class women workers in a health collective came to understand their own class placement, cross-class relationships, and class “politics” within this workplace. The chapter examines the varying experiences and interpretations of events shared by four women, two of whom identify as working class and two of whom see themselves as middle class. An analysis is presented of how these multiple interpretations of events emerged from the different experiences of coworkers as these were shaped by their structural location in ...
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