Sex and Race in the Labour Market

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3945662
AutoresIrene Bruegel (autor de correspondencia)
Año1989
Volumen32
Número1
Páginas49-68
Fecha de publicación1989-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/fr.1989.19
OpenAlexW2048791120
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28
Referencias citadas11

We know from our everyday experience that black women have some of the worst jobs. Yet this is not quite what published statistics suggest. Official data certainly show marked differences between men's and women's jobs and between the jobs that black and white men hold, but racial differences between women appear slight in national survey results. This article attempts to unravel the reasons for the apparent conflict between the evidence of our eyes and those of surveys such as Colin Brown's. One critical difference is the fact that black women are more often full-time workers; they are also concentrated in the London area and in jobs where redundancies have been particularly high. To uncover the true scale of race inequalities these points have to be considered as well as the qualifications of black women and the inadequacies of standard socio-economic/occupational classification systems. This paper also draws out the key effects of the recession on black and white women's working lives using the evidence of the Greater London Council's (GLC) London Living Standards Survey (LLSS) between 1981 and 1986. This survey shows that black women are not only at the bottom of the pile, but that their position has got worse relative both to black men and white women over the last few years. '

Feminism · Human sexuality · Race (biology) · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions