Hard Work Is Not Enough : Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Davis, Katrinell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Work environment.
Sex discrimination against women.
Race discrimination.
African American women > Employment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Noires americaines > Travail > Californie > Alameda (Comte)
Discrimination à l'egard des femmes > Californie > Alameda (Comte)
Discrimination raciale > Californie > Alameda (Comte)
Travailleurs des transports > Californie > Alameda (Comte) > Conditions sociales.
Work environment > California > Alameda County.
African American women > Employment > California > Alameda County.
Sex discrimination against women > California > Alameda County.
Race discrimination > California > Alameda County.
Transport workers > California > Alameda County > Social conditions.
California > Alameda County.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Concepts and methods: understanding opportunity shifts among transit operators in the post-affirmative action era
  • From exclusion to selective inclusion: pre-1975 employment trends in the transit industry
  • Open doors, segregated facilities: African American women's incorporation into AC Transit
  • A rough ride: how worker-centered reforms, ambivalence, and declining conditions create work-life conflicts
  • Drug tests and pencil whippings: the consequences of workplace discipline within AC Transit
  • A house divided: the impact of persistent bias on low-skilled workers.

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