UPF Chapter 8

Discrimination in the Political Economy

Discrim. conscious OR unconscious for example: networking
Conscious: individual discrim.
Unconscious: institutional discrim.(biases against groups located in the written and unwritten rules of a society)

Incentives: Discrimination pays
Class struggle effects: capitalist profits due to successful divide-and-conquer strategies by race and gender.
Job competition effects: white male worker gains from the exclusion of others

Adaption: transportation of inequitable practices from other sites into the firm
get along to go along
for example: firms mimic sexual division of labor in home
for example: tokens

Positive feedback:
Perception: blame the victim
Socialization: follows exclusion
Choice: response to oppression

Interactions: links between sites

Stereotypes

Flexibility:
Business Cycles: costs of reducing discrim. change
Effects of unempl.

Long run:
Women's employment: econ. independence & backlash
Affirmative action: success & backlash
Comparable worth: instit. discrim., collective behavior, backlash