TY - BOOK ID - 14267926 TI - Opportunity denied : limiting Black women to devalued work PY - 2011 SN - 0813551226 1283864436 0813551978 9780813551975 9780813551227 9780813551234 0813551234 9781283864435 PB - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, DB - UniCat KW - African American women -- Employment -- History. KW - Discrimination in employment -- History. KW - Sex discrimination against women -- History. KW - African American women KW - Sex discrimination against women KW - Discrimination in employment KW - Business & Economics KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - Employment KW - History KW - History. KW - Bias, Job KW - Employment discrimination KW - Equal employment opportunity KW - Equal opportunity in employment KW - Fair employment practice KW - Job bias KW - Job discrimination KW - Race discrimination in employment KW - Afro-American women KW - Women, African American KW - Women, Negro KW - Employment (Economic theory) KW - Women KW - Employment&delete& KW - E-books KW - Affirmative action programs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14267926 AB - Opportunity Denied is the first comprehensive look at changes in race, gender, and women's work across time, comparing the labor force experiences of Black women to White women, Black men and White men. From free Black women in 1860 to Black women in 2008, the experience of discrimination in seeking and keeping a job has been determinedly constant. Branch focuses on occupational segregation before 1970 and situates the findings of contemporary studies in a broad historical context, illustrating how inequality can grow and become entrenched over time through the institution of wo ER -