Complex Inequality: Gender, Class and Race in the New Economy (Perspectives on Gender)

The American economy is in good shape: profits are soaring, employment is expanding, and technological advances abound. Yet inequality between genders and among races still exists. In Complex Inequality, Leslie McCall sifts through the complexities surrounding wage differences and economic restructuring to provide an important new understanding of the differences gender, race, and class make in inequality. McCall's vision of inequality will offer a new way to approach and address the complexities of inequality Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Restructuring Inequalities: A Gender, Class, and Race Perspective......Page 20 Configurations of Inequality: Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race......Page 48 Industrial and Postindustrial Configurations of Inequality: Detroit and Dallas......Page 80 Breaking the Connection: Occupational Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap......Page 108 The Difference Class Makes: The Gender Wage Gap among the College- and Non-College-Educated......Page 136 The Difference Gender Makes: Wage Inequality among Women and among Men......Page 162 The History and Politics of Inequality Reconsidered......Page 192 Technical Appendix......Page 210 Notes......Page 220 References......Page 230 Index......Page 246 Annotation The American economy is in good shape: profits are soaring, employment is expanding, and technological advances abound. Yet inequality between genders and among races still exists. InComplex Inequality, Leslie McCall sifts through the complexities surrounding wage differences and economic restructuring to provide an important new understanding of the differences gender, race, and class make in inequality. McCall's vision of inequality will offer a new way to approach and address the complexities of inequality belt in the United States was held up as a model of economic growth and equality during its heyday in the 1960s. A related alternative explanation is that higher unemployment in Europe is the consequence of greater productivity growth than in the United States, especially in the service sector. Complex Inequality sifts through the complexities surrounding wage differences and economic restructuring in the US to provide an important new understanding of the differences gender, race and class make in inequality. First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Leslie Mccall. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 213-228) And Index.