Black Woman Worker

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Black Woman Worker

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Author : Fatima Meer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

Black Woman Worker written by Fatima Meer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Blacks categories.

In 1984, a survey into the status of Black women factory workers in the Durban-Pinetown area was conducted by the Institute for Black Research. The empirical study in this book has three components: (1) The self-evaluations of Black women of their roles in the home and the work place, based on 988 interviews; (2) the attitudes of Black male workers to women in industrial labour based on 243 interviews; (3) the attitudes of employers to their women employees based on interviews with 15 management representatives. (DÜI-Hff).

Sister Circle

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Author : Sharon Harley
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2002

Sister Circle written by Sharon Harley and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Business & Economics categories.

"Sister Circle: Black Women and Work" is the end product of almost a decade's commitment made to each other by a small group of interdisciplinary Black and (one) white "Sister Scholars" at the University of Maryland in 1993.

Opportunity Denied

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Author : Enobong Branch
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-08

Opportunity Denied written by Enobong Branch and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-08 with Social Science categories.

Blacks and Whites. Men and Women. Historically, each group has held very different types of jobs. The divide between these jobs was stark—clean or dirty, steady or inconsistent, skilled or unskilled. In such a rigidly segregated occupational landscape, race and gender radically limited labor opportunities, relegating Black women to the least desirable jobs. 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. Enobong Hannah Branch merges empirical data with rich historical detail, offering an original overview of the evolution of Black women’s work. 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.

Black Women In The Labor Force

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Author : Phyllis Ann Wallace
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Release Date : 1982

Black Women In The Labor Force written by Phyllis Ann Wallace and has been published by MIT Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Business & Economics categories.

A comprehensive analysis of the economic literature on black women workers, offering forthright recommendations for improving their status in the labor market.

What A Woman Ought To Be And To Do

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Author : Stephanie J. Shaw
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-01-15

What A Woman Ought To Be And To Do written by Stephanie J. Shaw and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-15 with Social Science categories.

Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research into the lives of social workers, librarians, nurses, and teachers from the 1870s through the 1950s allows us to hear these women's voices for the first time. The women tell us, in their own words, about their families, their values, their expectations. We learn of the forces and factors that made them exceptional, and of the choices and commitments that made them leaders in their communities. What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do brings to life a world in which African-American families, communities, and schools worked to encourage the self-confidence, individual initiative, and social responsibility of girls. Shaw shows us how, in a society that denied black women full professional status, these girls embraced and in turn defined an ideal of "socially responsible individualism" that balanced private and public sphere responsibilities. A collective portrait of character shaped in the toughest circumstances, this book is more than a study of the socialization of these women as children and the organization of their work as adults. It is also a study of leadership—of how African American communities gave their daughters the power to succeed in and change a hostile world.

Working Women

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Author : L. Lawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

Working Women written by L. Lawson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.

To Joy My Freedom

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Author : Tera W. Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1997-05-20

To Joy My Freedom written by Tera W. Hunter and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-20 with History categories.

As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta—the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south—in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers’ domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Hunter weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post–Civil War south. Through anecdote and data, analysis and interpretation, she manages to penetrate African-American life and labor and to reveal the centrality of women at the inception—and at the heart—of the new south.

A Matter Of Moral Justice

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Author : Jenny Carson
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2021-07-13

A Matter Of Moral Justice written by Jenny Carson and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Political Science categories.

A long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignity Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York’s power laundry industry in the 1930s. Jenny Carson tells the story of how substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination, and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city’s laundry workers. Laundry work opened a door for African American women to enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort. But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical, community-based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by men. It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the plants. As Carson shows, this local struggle highlighted how race and gender shaped worker conditions, labor organizing, and union politics across the country in the twentieth century. Meticulous and engaging, A Matter of Moral Justice examines the role of African American and radical women activists and their collisions with labor organizing and union politics.

Household Workers Unite

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Author : Premilla Nadasen
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2016-09-06

Household Workers Unite written by Premilla Nadasen and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with History categories.

Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing. In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing, scholar and activist Premilla Nadasen shatters countless myths and misconceptions about an historically misunderstood workforce. Resurrecting a little-known history of domestic-worker activism from the 1950s to the 1970s, Nadasen shows how these women were a far cry from the stereotyped passive and powerless victims; they were innovative labor organizers who tirelessly organized on buses and streets across the United States to bring dignity and legal recognition to their occupation. Dismissed by mainstream labor as “unorganizable,” African American household workers developed unique strategies for social change and formed unprecedented alliances with activists in both the women’s rights and the black freedom movements. Using storytelling as a form of activism and as means of establishing a collective identity as workers, these women proudly declared, “We refuse to be your mammies, nannies, aunties, uncles, girls, handmaidens any longer.” With compelling personal stories of the leaders and participants on the front lines, Household Workers Unite gives voice to the poor women of color whose dedicated struggle for higher wages, better working conditions, and respect on the job created a sustained political movement that endures today. Winner of the 2016 Sara A. Whaley Book Prize

Black Women And White Women In The Professions

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Author : Natalie J. Sokoloff
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1992

Black Women And White Women In The Professions written by Natalie J. Sokoloff and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.