The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market provides historical background on employment discrimination and wage discrepancies in the United States and on government efforts to address employment discrimination
Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Coltrane, Scott. 2000. “Research on Household Labor: Modeling and Measuring the Social Embeddedness of Routine Family Work.
This volume presents the most up-to-date findings and analysis on racial and social dynamics, with recommendations for ongoing research.
This report examines the links between inequality and other major global trends (or megatrends), with a focus on technological change, climate change, urbanization and international migration.
The prominent sociologists and economists featured in this volume describe how race and gender intersect to especially disadvantage black and Latina women.
Gender and Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation
In this provocative book, a former United States senator, eminent economist, and a former senior leader at the Bureau of Labor Statistics challenge the prevailing consensus that income inequality is a growing threat to American society.
What policy options promise to diminish these earnings gaps? This book tries to answer these and other questions using an innovative technique of matching comparisons.
The prominent sociologists and economists featured in this volume describe how race and gender intersect to especially disadvantage black and Latina women.
To allocate individuals by class, the new National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) is used—in its seven-category version—which is specifically designed to capture differences in employment relations (Rose & Pevalin, ...
Together, these essays bear out an inescapable conclusion: inequality is a choice.