Race, identity and work

This volume examines the connections between race and work, focusing on three key themes. First, contributors consider how racial minorities deal with questions of identity in the workplace. This is especially important as ideas about professionalism often hinge on implicitly racialized criteria, t...

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Other Authors Mickey, Ethel L. (Editor), Wingfield, Adia Harvey, 1977- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of work ; v. 32.
Subjects
Diversity in the workplace.
Minorities > Employment.
Work > Social aspects.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781787695016
9781787695030
ISSN0277-2833 ;
DOI10.1108/S0277-2833201832
Physical Description1 online resource (viii, 272 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Introduction
  • Part I Identity and identity work
  • "Coming back to who i am": unemployment, identity, and social support
  • Sustaining enchantment: how cultural workers manage precariousness and routine
  • Part II Racial exclusion at work
  • Social capital, relational inequality theory, and earnings of racial minority lawyers
  • Racism, sexism, and the constraints on black women's labor in 1920
  • The downward slide of working-class African American men
  • Organizational context and the well-being of black workers: does racial composition affect psychological distress?
  • Occupational composition and racial/ethnic inequality in varying work hours in the Great Recession
  • Part III Challenging racial exclusion
  • Does the job matter? diversity officers and racialized stress
  • Occupational activism and racial desegregation at work: activist careers after the nonviolent Nashville civil rights movement
  • Framing the professional pose: how collegiate black men view the performance of professional behaviors
  • Index.

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