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Replication Data for "Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities at Work"

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Title Replication Data for "Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities at Work"
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NJABRM
 
Creator Harknett, Kristen
Charloitte O'Herron
Evelyn Bellew
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The datafile and code are available to replicate findings in the publication "Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities at Work."

Abstract: The labor market is the site of longstanding and persistent inequalities across race and gender groups in hiring, compensation, and advancement. In this paper, we draw on data from 13,574 hourly service-sector workers to extend the study of intersectional labor market inequalities to workers’ experience on the job. In the service sector, where workers are regularly expected to be on their feet for long hours and to contend with workloads that are intense and unrelenting, regular break time is an essential component of job quality and general well-being. Yet, we find that Black women are less likely than their counterparts to get a break during their work shift. Although union membership and laws mandating work breaks are effective in increasing access to breaks for workers overall, they do not ameliorate the inequality Black women face in access to work breaks within the service sector. A sobering implication is that worker power and labor protections can raise the floor on working conditions but leave inequalities intact. Our findings also have implications for racial health inequalities, as the routine daily stress of service sector takes a disproportionate toll on the health of Black women.
 
Subject Social Sciences
work, intersectionality, labor regulations, unionization, race, gender, inequality
 
Date 2023-09-23
 
Contributor Harknett, Kristen