Enobong Hannah Branch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Enobong Hannah Branch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Enobong Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Branch |
| SIGNATURE | BRANCH E H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Precarious Jobs, Precarious Lives? A Cohort Analysis of Trends in Hourly Employment
Research on flexible work organization shows how contract, contingent, and other forms of nonstandard employment in the U.S. labor market are often associated with economic insecurity. This article investigates change over time in the extent and nature of hourly employment, a standard form of work that has been overshadowed in the recent literature despite its association with precarity and other negative worker outcomes. Drawing on cohort method…
Race and Gender at Work in the Neoliberal Economy
Hard Work Is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace
The Economics of Race in the United States
Race is a central organizing reality of the United States. Why exactly that is so remains controversial. Taking his cues from the classic texts written on race by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gunnar Myrdal, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and the Kerner Commission’s Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), O’Flaherty aims to answer key questions that emerge and to disentangle contradictory views of how race op…
The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism
Upgraded to Bad Jobs: Low-Wage Black Women's Relative Status since 1970
Labor market changes complicate the analysis of black women's status relative to white women because education, occupational attainment, and race–gender are now less predictive of earnings. Low-wage black women's relative status has improved somewhat from 1970 to 2000, contrary to the well-documented decrease in relative status reported for all black women wage earners since 1980, but their dramatic occupational upgrading was not responsible for …
Interrogating Claims of Progress for Black Women Since 1970
Utilizing a comparative and historical perspective, we interrogate claims of progress focusing on low-wage Black and White women workers from 1970 to 2000. We begin by offering a historical perspective on occupational segregation by race and gender, which informs the evaluation of low-wage Black women’s occupational progress. We then situate Black women’s occupational attainment since 1970 within the larger context of labor market restructuring, …
Suited for Service: Racialized Rationalizations for the Ideal Domestic Servant from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
From the early 1800s through the 1920s the image of the ideal domestic servant varied dramatically—native white women, European immigrant women, and black women. However, at all times the racial/ethnic identity of the domestic servant played a critical role. The transition from the casualness of “help” to the formality of the “domestic servant” relationship marked the historical moment in which a subordinate racial identity became a precondition …
Regional Convergence in Low-Wage Work and Earnings, 1970-2000
Southern and non-Southern labor markets entered the period of economic restructuring from different starting points. Industrial and occupational differences across regions were eroded by the growth of the service industry in all regions, the decline in personal services within the South, and the decline of unions and manufacturing jobs outside of the South. This analysis underscores that indicators of precarity such as unionization and part-time …
Regional Convergence in Low-Wage Work and Earnings, 1970-2000
Southern and non-Southern labor markets entered the period of economic restructuring from different starting points. Industrial and occupational differences across regions were eroded by the growth of the service industry in all regions, the decline in personal services within the South, and the decline of unions and manufacturing jobs outside of the South. This analysis underscores that indicators of precarity such as unionization and part-time …
Suited for Service: Racialized Rationalizations for the Ideal Domestic Servant from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
From the early 1800s through the 1920s the image of the ideal domestic servant varied dramatically—native white women, European immigrant women, and black women. However, at all times the racial/ethnic identity of the domestic servant played a critical role. The transition from the casualness of “help” to the formality of the “domestic servant” relationship marked the historical moment in which a subordinate racial identity became a precondition …
Regional Convergence in Low-Wage Work and Earnings, 1970-2000
Southern and non-Southern labor markets entered the period of economic restructuring from different starting points. Industrial and occupational differences across regions were eroded by the growth of the service industry in all regions, the decline in personal services within the South, and the decline of unions and manufacturing jobs outside of the South. This analysis underscores that indicators of precarity such as unionization and part-time …
Suited for Service: Racialized Rationalizations for the Ideal Domestic Servant from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
From the early 1800s through the 1920s the image of the ideal domestic servant varied dramatically—native white women, European immigrant women, and black women. However, at all times the racial/ethnic identity of the domestic servant played a critical role. The transition from the casualness of “help” to the formality of the “domestic servant” relationship marked the historical moment in which a subordinate racial identity became a precondition …
Interrogating Claims of Progress for Black Women Since 1970
Utilizing a comparative and historical perspective, we interrogate claims of progress focusing on low-wage Black and White women workers from 1970 to 2000. We begin by offering a historical perspective on occupational segregation by race and gender, which informs the evaluation of low-wage Black women’s occupational progress. We then situate Black women’s occupational attainment since 1970 within the larger context of labor market restructuring, …
Upgraded to Bad Jobs: Low-Wage Black Women's Relative Status since 1970
Labor market changes complicate the analysis of black women's status relative to white women because education, occupational attainment, and race–gender are now less predictive of earnings. Low-wage black women's relative status has improved somewhat from 1970 to 2000, contrary to the well-documented decrease in relative status reported for all black women wage earners since 1980, but their dramatic occupational upgrading was not responsible for …
The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism
The Economics of Race in the United States
Race is a central organizing reality of the United States. Why exactly that is so remains controversial. Taking his cues from the classic texts written on race by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gunnar Myrdal, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and the Kerner Commission’s Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), O’Flaherty aims to answer key questions that emerge and to disentangle contradictory views of how race op…
Hard Work Is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace
Race and Gender at Work in the Neoliberal Economy
Precarious Jobs, Precarious Lives? A Cohort Analysis of Trends in Hourly Employment
Research on flexible work organization shows how contract, contingent, and other forms of nonstandard employment in the U.S. labor market are often associated with economic insecurity. This article investigates change over time in the extent and nature of hourly employment, a standard form of work that has been overshadowed in the recent literature despite its association with precarity and other negative worker outcomes. Drawing on cohort method…
Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works)