Race, Identity and Work

This volume examines the connections between race and work, focusing how racial minorities deal with identity in the workplace; how workers of color encounter exclusion, marginalization and sidelining; and strategies minority workers use to combat and change patterns of workplace inequality.

About the author

Ethel L. Mickey is Lecturer in Sociology at Wellesley College, USA. Her research examines gender, work and organizations, and social networks with a focus on high-tech settings. Her work has been published in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Feminist Formations, and Aggression and Violence. Adia Harvey Wingfield is Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Her research examines racial and gender inequality in professional workplaces, and her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Social Problems, Gender & Society, and American Behavioral Scientist. She is also a contributing writer for The Atlantic. Professor Wingfield is the author of several books, most recently No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work, and has won multiple awards from sections of the American Sociological Association.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ethel L Mickey (Editor), Ethel L. Mickey (Editor), Ethel L. (Wellesley College Mickey (Editor), Adia Harvey Wingfield (Editor), Adia Harvey (Washington University in St. Louis Wingfield (Editor)
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2018
• EAN: 9781787695023
• ISBN: 978-1-78769-502-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 237 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 534 g
• Series: Research in the Sociology of Work; Research in the Sociology of W
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries