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Title: UPGRADED TO BAD JOBS: Low-Wage Black Women's Relative Status Since 1970

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: Labor market changes complicate the analysis of black womens status relative to white women because education, occupational attainment, and racegender are now less predictive of earnings. Low-wage black womens relative status has improved somewhat from 1970 to 2000, contrary to the well-documented decrease in relative status reported for all black women wage earners since 1980, but their dramatic occupational upgrading was not responsible for the trend. White-collar occupational positions formerly responsible for white womens relative earnings advantage no longer deliver that reward, as restructuring has produced a proliferation of bad jobs across occupational groups. This study argues that increasing exposure to precarious work is crucial to understanding changes in low-wage black womens relative economic status since 1970.

Url: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1111/tsq.12053

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Authors: Hanley, Caroline; Branch, Hannah Enobong

Periodical (Full): The Sociological Quarterly

Issue: 2

Volume: 55

Pages: 366-395

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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