Hard Work Is Not Enough (eBook)

Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace

Katrinell M. Davis (Autor)

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2016
196 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469630496 (ISBN)

Infos

The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed. Moreover, the gap between the wealthy and the poor had widened in past decades as mobility remained stubbornly unchanged. Against this deepening economic divide, a dominant cultural narrative took root: immobility, especially for the working class, is driven by shifts in demand for labor. In this context, and with right-to-work policies proliferating nationwide, workers are encouraged to avoid government dependency by arming themselves with education and training.Drawing on archival material and interviews with African American women transit workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Katrinell Davis grapples with our understanding of mobility as it intersects with race and gender in the postindustrial and postcivil rights United States. Considering the consequences of declining working conditions within the public transit workplace of Alameda County, Davis illustrates how worker experience--on and off the job--has been undermined by workplace norms and administrative practices designed to address flagging worker commitment and morale. Providing a comprehensive account of how political, social, and economic factors work together to shape the culture of opportunity in a postindustrial workplace, she shows how government manpower policies, administrative policies, and drastic shifts in unionization have influenced the prospects of low-skilled workers.

Autor

Katrinell M. Davis is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Vermont.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.11.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 14 tables, notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action compliance • African American women workers in CA • Alameda-Contra Costa (AC) Transit District history • Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 192 • Bus Drivers • Culture of Opportunity • disparate impact • Drug Free Workplace Policy • East Bay San Francisco Bay • Emeryville, California • Great Recession • Hayward, California • Intersectionality • Involuntary part-time work • Labor Arbitration in the transit industry • Low-skilled employment • Low skilled mobility • Low skilled workers in California • Low skilled workers in the transit industry • Neoliberal Employment arrangements • Newark, California • Oakland, California • Occupational injuries • Post Industrial workplace relations • precarious work arrangements • Public • public sector unions • race and gender inequality • Random Drug testing in the workplace • Repetitive Stress injuries on the jobs • Richmond, California • Sick leaves • Statistical Discrimination • Structure of opportunity • transit industry • transit operators • urban inequality • Urban Mass Transit History in California • Working class immobility • Work-life conflicts • workplace discrimination • Workplace Practices
• ISBN-13: 9781469630496 / 9781469630496