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Book SynopsisThis 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, to an extent that racial identity may pose a challenge to meeting occupational requirements. Secondly, contributors address ways racial exclusion occurs in jobs in the new economy: while organizations can no longer legally segregate or discriminate on the basis of race, exclusion processes still occur in the contemporary workplace. Finally, this volume considers the strategies that minority workers use to combat and change patterns of workplace inequality. In the new economy, where workers arguably have limited power relative to organizations, the techniques of the past may not be as effective.
Providing valuable insight on a growing segment of the labor force, this book considers the US's rapidly changing racial demographics and how this phenomenon fundamentally alters many aspects of work, providing an in-depth understanding of how race affects work for people of color across occupations, workplaces, and industries.
Trade ReviewIn light of the vaunted triumph of the "white working class" in the 2016 election, sociologists examine links between race, identity, and work in the US. In sections on identity and identity work, racial exclusion at work, and challenging racial exclusion, they consider such aspects as sustaining enchantment: how cultural workers manage precariousness and routine, the downward slide of working-class African American men, organizational context and well-being of black workers: whether racial composition affects psychological distress, occupational composition and racial/ethnic inequality in varying work hours during The Great Recession, and framing the professional pose: how collegiate black men view the performance of professional behaviors. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsIntroduction;
Ethel L. Mickey and Adia Harvey Wingfield Part I: Identity and Identity Work Chapter 1. "Coming Back to Who I Am": Unemployment, Identity, and Social Support;
Lindsey M. Ibañez and Steven H. Lopez Chapter 2. Sustaining Enchantment: How Cultural Workers Manage Precariousness and Routine;
Alexandre Frenette and Richard E. Ocejo Part II: Racial Exclusion at Work Chapter 3. Social Capital, Relational Inequality Theory and Earnings of Racial Minority Lawyers;
Fiona M. Kay Chapter 4. Racism, Sexism, & the Constraints on Black Women's Labor in 1920;
Enobong Hannah Branch Chapter 5. The Downward Slide of Working Class African American Men;
George Wilson and Vincent J. Roscigno Chapter 6. Organizational Context and the Well-Being of Black Workers: Does Racial Composition Affect Psychological Distress?;
Kevin Stainback, Kendra Jason, and Charles Walter Chapter 7. Occupational Composition and Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Varying Work Hours in the Great Recession;
Ryan Finnigan and Savannah Hunter Part III: Challenging Racial Exclusion Chapter 8. Does the Job Matter? Diversity Officers and Racialized Stress;
Adia Harvey Wingfield, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, and Lynn Smith-Lovin Chapter 9. Occupational Activism and Racial Desegregation at Work: Activist Careers After the Nonviolent Nashville Civil Rights Movement;
Daniel B. Cornfield, Jonathan S. Coley, Larry W. Isaac, and Dennis C. Dickerson Chapter 10. Framing the Professional Pose: How Collegiate Black Men View the Performance of Professional Behaviors;
Brandon Jackson
