Sex and Race in the Labour Market
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3945662 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irene Bruegel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-68 |
| Publication date | 1989-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.1989.19 |
| OpenAlex | W2048791120 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 11 |
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
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2026 (37) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |