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References on Class & Gender Relations

Compiled by Evangelina Holvino and Maureen Scully

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Acker, J. (1990). Hierarchies, jobs, bodies: A theory of gendered organizations. Gender & Society, 4(2), 139-158.

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Alves, W. M., & Rossi, P. H. (1978). Who should get what? Fairness judgements of the distribution of earnings. American Journal of Sociology, 84, 541-564.

Baritz, L. (1960). Servants of Power: A history of the use of social science in American industry. Middletown, CT:Wesleyan University Press.

Barlett, D.L. & Steele, J.B. (1992). America: What went wrong? Kansas City: Andrews and McMead.

Bell, D. (1972). On meritocracy and equality. Public Interest, 29, 29-68.

Bell, E.L. & Nkomo, S.M. (1993). Women of color in management: Toward an inclusive analysis. In E.A. Fagenson (Ed.), Women in Management: Trends, issues and challenges in managerial diversity (pp. 105-130). Newbury Park: Sage.

Bok, D. (1993). The Cost of Talent: How executives and professionals are paid and how it affects America. NY: The Free Press.

Bowles, S., & Gintis, H. (1976). Schooling in Capitalist America. New York: Basic Books. Brint, S., & Karabel, J. (1989). The Diverted Dream: Community colleges and the promise of educational opportunity in America, 1900-1985. New York: Oxford University Press.

Burawoy, M. (1981). Manufacturing Consent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Center for Popular Economics (1986). Economic Report of the People. Boston: South End Press.

Chock, P.P. (1991). "Illegal aliens" and "opportunity:" Myth-making in congressional testimony. American Ethnologist, 18(2), 279-294.

Coleman, R.P., & Rainwater, L. (1978). Social Standing in America: New dimensions of class. New York: Basic Books.

Collins, P.H., Maldonado, L.A., Takagi, D.Y., Thorne, B., Weber, L., Winant, H. (1995). Symposium on West and Fenstermaker's "Doing Difference." Gender & Society, 9(4), 491-513.

DeMott, B. (1990). The Imperial Middle: Why Americans can't think straight about class. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Edwards, R.C. (1979). Contested Terrain: The transformation of the workplace in the twentieth century. NY: Basic Books.

Ehrenreich, B. (1999). Nickel-and-Dimed: On (not) getting by in America. Harper's Magazine, January, 37-52.

Ehrenreich, B. (1985). Fear of Falling: The inner life of the middle class. NY: Harper Perennial.

Ehrenreich, B., & Ehrenreich, J. (1979). The professional managerial class. In P. Walker (Ed.), Between Labor and Capital (pp. 5-45). Boston, MA: South End Press.

Ferree, M.M. (1987). She works hard for a living: Gender and class on the job. In B.B. Hess & M.M. Ferree (Eds.), Analyzing Gender: A Handbook of Social Science Research (pp. 322- 347). Newbury Park: Sage.

Fuentes, A, & Ehrenreich, B. (1983). Women in the global factory. Boston: South End Press.

Galagan, P.A. (1992). Beyond hierarchy: The search for high performance. Training and Development. 46(8), 21-25.

Giddens, A. (1973). The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies. New York: Harper & Row.

Glenn, E.N. (1985). Racial ethnic women's labor: The intersection of race, gender and class oppression. Review of Radical Political Economy, 17, 86-108.

Gordon, D.M., Edwards, R., & Reich, M. (1982). Segmented Work, Divided Workers. London: Cambridge University Press.

Habermas, J. (1975). Legitimation Crisis. (T. McCarthy, Trans.). Boston: Beacon Press.

Haskell, T.L. (Ed.) (1984). The Authority of Experts: Studies in history and theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Higginbotham, E. & Weber, L. (1992). Moving up with kin and community: Upward social mobility for black and white women. Gender and Society, 6, 416-440.

Hochschild, J.L. (1981). What's Fair? American beliefs about distributive justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Holvino, E. (1996). Reading organization development from the margins: Outsider within. Organization, 3, 520-533.

Hossfeld, K.J. (1990). "Their logic against them:" Contradictions in sex, race, and class in Silicon Valley. In K. Ward (Ed.), Women workers and global restructuring (pp. 149-178). Ithaca, NY: ILR Press.

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Jencks, C., Bartlett, S., Corcoran, M., Crouse, J., Eaglesfield, D., Jackson, G., McClelland, K., Mueser, P., Olneck, M., Schwartz, J., Ward, S., & Williams, J. (1979). Who Gets Ahead?The determinants of economic success in America. New York: Basic Books.

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Reskin, Barbara. (1993). Sex segregation in the workplace. Annual Review of Sociology, 19:241-70.

Richardson, D. (1972). The long day: The story of a New York working girl. In W.L. O'Neill (Ed.), Women at Work. New York: Quadrangle.

Romero, M. (1997). Life as the maid's daughter: An exploration of the everyday boundaries of race, class, and gender. In M. Romero, P. Hondagneu-Sotelo, & V. Ortiz (Eds.), Challenging Fronteras (pp. 195-209). NY: Routledge.

Rubin, L. B. (1995). Families on the Fault Line : America's working class speaks about the family, the economy, race, and ethnicity. New York: Harperperennial Library.

Rubin, L. B. (1976). Worlds of Pain: Life in the working class family. NY: Basic Books. Ryan, W. (1971). Blaming the Victim. New York: Vintage Books.

Sacks, K.B., & Remy, D. (Eds.). (1984). My Troubles are Going to Have Trouble with Me: Everyday trials and triumphs of women workers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

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Theriault, R. (1995). How to Tell When You're Tired: A brief examination of work. NY: W.W. Norton.

Tokarczyk, M.M. & Fay, E.A. (1993). Working Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the knowledge factory. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press.

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West, C. & Fenstermaker, S. (1995). Doing Difference. Gender & Society, 9(1), 8-37.

Willis, P. (1977). Learning to Labour: How working class kids get working class jobs. New York: Columbia University Press.

Witte, J.F. (1980). Democracy, Authority, and Alienation in Work: Worker's participation in an American corporation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Young, M. (1958). The Rise of the Meritocracy, 1870-2033. New York: Penguin Books.

Zandy, J. (Ed.) (1995). Liberating Memory: Our work and our working-class consciousness. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Zandy, J. (Ed.) (1990). Calling Home: Working-class women's writings. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Zwerdling, D. (1978). Workplace Democracy. New York: Harper & Row.