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Title: An End to Job Mobility on the Sales Floor: The Impact of Department Store Cost Cutting on African-American Women, 19702000

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Much of the literature regarding the employability of African-American women focuses on how demographic factors like single parenthood, limited social capital, and low levels of education diminish their employment options. This study engages this literature by exploring the role that institutional factors, including state action and cost-cutting strategies in the workplace, play in shaping the structure of job opportunities available to high school-educated African-American women. Focusing on department store workers in the San Francisco Bay area, this case study highlights how shifts, including the increasing contingency of employment between 1970 and 2000, have constrained African-American womens experience and progress in this low-skilled workplace.

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Authors: Davis, Katrinell M.

Periodical (Full): Feminist Economics

Issue: 1

Volume: 19

Pages: 54-75

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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