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Occupational inequality, including occupational segregation and associated inequities in working conditions, is a key linchpin of structural racial, gender, and class inequalities among American workers. Building on this scholarship, I center workers who are intermediaries and develop the concept of conditional inequality, which signifies the mediating process by which intermediaries' experiences of and reactions to structural inequities in work conditions affect the experiences and outcomes of other individuals within their purview. Specifically, I examine how marginalized intermediaries within a segregated profession—residential property management—experience their work conditions, how they react to these conditions, and how their strategies to minimize the burdens of these conditions affect others with whom they interact. Using 80 in-depth interviews and extensive ethnographic data gathered among multifamily managers and leasing consultants (almost all women of color) and renters (predominantly people of color), I demonstrate how managers experience little autonomy and acute, renter-oriented burdens in their work conditions. Managers adopted three strategies to minimize the harms of these conditions and, in so doing, generated financial and health consequences among renters. Finally, I explain cooptive inclusion—the process of White, male-dominated industries relying on marginalized people to enact policies that harm other marginalized people—and its implications for the perpetuation of intersectional capitalism.

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