The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Robert J. Gordon · 12 Jan 2016 · 1,104pp · 302,176 words
, they could plan for careers rather than jobs.”18 Women began to become accepted as career-track professionals whose progress went far beyond the traditional pink-collar occupations. In 1960, 94 percent of doctors were white men, as were 96 percent of lawyers and 86 percent of managers. By 2008 these numbers
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those within occupations. Despite the increased professionalization of female occupational choices, the occupational composition of women is still quite different than men, particularly when skilled pink-collar occupations are compared with skilled blue-collar occupations. For instance, virtually all midwives are female, and virtually all cement contractors are male. Goldin concludes that
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 words
epochal changes to America’s (and indeed the world’s) political economy since the 1970s, covering everything from deindustrialization and financialization to the rise of “pink-collar” work and skyrocketing inequality, and more—and sometimes all at once. This book tells a revisionist story of neoliberalism that takes the conversation away from
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Phillips, Channing, 78 Phillips, William, 64 Phillips curve, 64 Phillips-Fein, Kim, 88 Piereson, James, 156–57 Pierson, Paul, 215 Pill, the, 38, 138, 140 “pink-collar” work, xvii Pinochet, Augusto, 54, 55, 227 Pistor, Katarina, 274 Planck, Max, 23 “plandemic,” xxiii Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 154–55 Plessy v. Ferguson, 101
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
by Jamie Woodcock · 17 Jun 2019 · 236pp · 62,158 words
example, in the increasingly important area of publicity and marketing, in which publishers compete in ever more crowded marketplaces for videogames, the sector is “solidly pink-collar,” with public relations workers over 85 percent female. However, in contrast to how journalists are respected for their creative work, publicists have often become targeted
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18, 2015, www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/crunched-games-industry-exploiting-workforce-ea-spouse-software. 31Jennifer Pan, “Pink Collar,” Jacobin 14 (2014), www.jacobinmag.com/2014/06/pink-collar/. 32Pan, “Pink Collar.” 33Pan, “Pink Collar.” 34Pan, “Pink Collar.” 35Aphra Kerr and John D. Kelleher, “The Recruitment of Passion and Community in the Service of Capital: Community Managers in
Electric City
by Thomas Hager · 18 May 2021 · 248pp · 79,444 words
to the middle of Tennessee, where the TVA built its headquarters in Knoxville. There were jobs now, thousands of them—blue-collar, white-collar, and pink-collar, for men and women, Black and white. Applicants flocked to Muscle Shoals by train or bus if they could afford it, riding the rails, hitchhiking
Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America
by Tamara Draut · 4 Apr 2016 · 255pp · 75,172 words
Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by Ian Morris · 11 Oct 2010 · 1,152pp · 266,246 words
changes freed women for work outside the home in an economy rapidly shifting from manufacturing toward services, shedding blue-collar labor but crying out for pink-collar workers. In the richest countries the proportion of women in paid jobs and higher education rose steadily after 1960, and, like every era before it
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
by Gabriel Winant · 23 Mar 2021 · 563pp · 136,190 words
more distinctive pattern in Black employment, however, occurred for women. African American women found work in hospitals, laundries, and food and drink service, but a pink-collar world of jobs as secretaries, telephone operators, saleswomen, and teachers was largely closed to them. Black women were driven instead into domestic work: 42 percent
The Cigarette: A Political History
by Sarah Milov · 1 Oct 2019
.49 “Ghetto” was a revealing choice of words. During the 1970s, feminist observers of the American workplace spoke increasingly of the “secretarial ghetto” or the “pink-collar ghetto”—the poorly paid, low-status, dead-end service and clerical jobs that were feminizing the labor force.50 The right to breathe smoke-free
Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by Matt Taibbi · 7 Oct 2019 · 357pp · 99,456 words
). Trump promises to deliver it. The Democrats’ solution? Last week the New York Times published an article advising men with high-school educations to take pink-collar jobs. Talk about insensitivity. Her article was full of nuanced, uncomfortable observations about why working-class people voted for Trump. It clearly struck a chord
Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
by Robert N. Proctor · 28 Feb 2012 · 1,199pp · 332,563 words
the hearts and hands of the right kinds of people. Which increasingly in the 1970s and 1980s meant the young and your average blue- and pink-collar working stiff. We don’t normally think of auto shows as a sport, for example, but R. J. Reynolds in 1982 started sponsoring Winston Championship
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The Meritocracy Myth
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A People’s History of Computing in the United States
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
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Wrap It In A Bit Of Cheese Like You're Tricking The Dog: The fifth collection of essays and emails by New York Times Best Selling author David Thorne
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