In the recent debate over the growing poverty among blacks,
attention has increasingly focused on the role of women heading
households as a contributor to poverty. Throughout the debate,
however, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the
workplace. This study examines how structural change in the U.S.
economy and particularly the rise of new service sectors have
reshaped the work content, opportunity, and wages of one labor
group--black women. Evidence for the study comes from two
sources--statistical data from U.S. Census data on employment,
particularly the Current Population Survey file, and interviews
with black women in several representative industries surveyed in
the book.
The initial chapters in the book explore the contradiction
between evolving trends in the economy, including the decline in
manufacturing, and a government policy that continues to rely on
the marketplace to provide jobs. Chapters 4-6 explore, in more
detail, the outcomes of the shift from manufacturing to services.
These chapters examine how sectors individually shape job markets
and may in the process provide mobility and wage gains or intensify
the ghettoization of women and the stratification of women by race.
The final chapters examine case histories of several black women
and look at the future of black women in the emerging workplace of
the twenty-first century.
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