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Work and Occupations archives from November 1998
The social construction of disability in organizations.(Special Issue on Social Inequality in the Workplace)
November 1, 1998... For the most part, equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws in the United States seek to redress workplace inequalities for disadvantaged groups by requiring only that employers apply the same work principles to all employees, regardless of...
Realizing solidarity: social interracial unionism during the Great Depression.(Special Issue on Social Inequality in the Workplace)
November 1, 1998... GUIDEPOSTS TO INTERRACIAL SOLIDARITY
Racial competition and conflict had been a major source of labor defeats in the 1910s and 1920s when unionization fell precipitously. But, in the a newfound interracial solidarity was a key element...
The macrosociology of paid domestic labor.(Special Issue on Social Inequality in the Workplace)
November 1, 1998... Domestic labor performed for a wage, or what the U.S. Census Bureau calls "private household service," is among the oldest forms of wage labor. Once the single most common female occupation in the United States, it has declined dramatically...
Devaluing women and minorities: the effects of race/ethnic and sex composition of occupations on wage levels.(Special Issue on Social Inequality in the Workplace)
November 1, 1998... Previous research has explored the applicability of comparable worth policies for ameliorating sex discrimination and race/ethnic discrimination. Applying comparable worth to sex and race/ethnicity assumes that similar processes are driving...
Real Heat: Gender and Race in the Urban Fire Service.(Special Issue on Social Inequality in the Workplace)
November 1, 1998... Real Heat: Gender and Race in the Urban Fire Service, by Carol Chetkovich. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997, 255 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
Although all firefighters encounter and respond to the same caloric heat...
What Do We Need a Union for? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955.(Special Issue on Social Inequality in the Workplace)
November 1, 1998... What Do We Need a Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955, by Timothy J. Minchin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997, 285 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
Timothy J. Minchin's history of the life and death of the...
Change at Work.(Special Issue on Social Inequality in the Workplace)
November 1, 1998... Change at Work, by Peter Cappelli, Laurie Bassi, Harry Katz, David Knoke, Paul Osterman, and Michael Useem. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 284 pp. $27.50 (cloth).
Change at Work tells a familiar story about how foreign...
Integrating Work and Family: Challenges and Choices for a Changing World.(Special Issue on Social Inequality in the Workplace)
November 1, 1998... Integrating Work and Family: Challenges and Choices for a Changing World, edited by Saroj Parasuraman and Jeffrey H. Greenhaus. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1997, 273 pp. $59.95 (cloth).
This collection is easy to read and presents a...
