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Abstract
The black female workers' journey from field to office was a long and arduous one. This paper examines the transition of black women from agricultural laborers to pink collar workers during the period 1900 to 1980. More black women than white women have had to work in paid employment in order to maintain their families economically. Discrimination against black pink collar workers in career advancement and the better-paying positions, is especially critical because so many black families are female-headed households in need of all the economic resources that the mother-breadwinner can obtain.
Recommended Citation
Bremner, Judith B.
(1992)
"Black Pink Collar Workers: Arduous Journey from Field and Kitchen to Office,"
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 19:
Iss.
3, Article 2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.2028
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