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"Nice Work If You Can Get It": Segmentation of White and Black Women Workers in the Post-War Period

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  • Randy albelda

    (Economics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456.)

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This article examines the convergence of black and white women's incomes, labor force participation rates in capitalist production and the state sector, and convergence of occupational distributions. It is argued that current labor market segmentation theory does not explain the existence and persistence of the racial and sexual division of paid labor. It then considers whether labor market segmentation theory can be refined to explain these changes in the labor market experiences of black and white women in the post WWII period. It is argued that since racism and patriarchy play important roles in the control of labor and the organization of work both historically and theoretically, segmentation theory can only provide an adequate explanation of the development of segmented markets and their racial and gender components by explicitly recognizing racism and patriarchy. Labor market segmentation is the historical process creating labor markets differentiated by race and sex in capitalist and government workplaces.

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  • Randy albelda, 1985. ""Nice Work If You Can Get It": Segmentation of White and Black Women Workers in the Post-War Period," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 17(3), pages 72-85, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:17:y:1985:i:3:p:72-85
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    1. Deborah M. Figart & Ellen Mutari, 1993. "Gender Segmentation of Craft Workers by Race in the 1970s and 1980s," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 25(2), pages 50-66, June.
    2. Randy Albelda & Aimee Bell-Pasht & Charalampos Konstantinidis, 2020. "Gender and Precarious Work in the United States: Evidence from the Contingent Work Supplement 1995–2017," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 52(3), pages 542-563, September.
    3. Jane Lapidus & Deborah Figart, 1998. "Remedying "Unfair Acts": U.S. Pay Equity by Race and Gender," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 4(3), pages 7-28.
    4. Nancy Folbre, 2023. "Radical Offspring," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 55(1), pages 191-196, March.
    5. Ellen Mutari, 2001. ""...As broad as our life experience": visions of feminist political economy, 1972-1991," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 33(4), pages 379-399, December.
    6. Randy Albelda & Aimee Bell-Pasht & Charalampos Konstantinidis, 2019. "Gender and Precarious Work in the United States: Evidence from the Contingent Work Supplement 1995-2017," Working Papers 2019-01, University of Massachusetts Boston, Economics Department.

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