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Rauscher, Lauren.

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"Work makes life sweet?": Employment and mental health among Black, White, and Mexican American women.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Work makes life sweet?": Employment and mental health among Black, White, and Mexican American women./
Author:	Rauscher, Lauren.
Description:	307 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Irene Browne; Regina Werum.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3234045
ISBN:	9780542876899

"Work makes life sweet?": Employment and mental health among Black, White, and Mexican American women.
Rauscher, Lauren.

"Work makes life sweet?": Employment and mental health among Black, White, and Mexican American women. - 307 p.

Advisers: Irene Browne; Regina Werum.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2006.

This dissertation explores how labor market inequality contributes to racial variation in women's mental health, focusing on two paradoxes in the empirical literature. First, previous research shows that employment enhances women's well-being, yet many women work under conditions that should be detrimental to emotional and physical health. Second, many Black and Mexican-American women work in the "worst" jobs, characterized by intense emotional and physical labor, little authority, and extremely low pay; yet, in some community studies they report higher levels of positive well-being than their more advantaged White counterparts. Drawing upon multiracial feminist theory, labor market theories, and the stress process model, I examine how specific work conditions impact Black, White, and Mexican American women's levels of depression and positive psychological well-being.

ISBN: 9780542876899Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

"Work makes life sweet?": Employment and mental health among Black, White, and Mexican American women.
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520 $a I use a parallel-equivalent, mixed-method design by integrating data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) and in-depth interviews with teachers (n=22). Findings reveal important racial differences in the ways that structural and subjective work conditions influence women's emotional health, supporting claims of intersectionality. While women of color (especially Mexican American women) experience higher levels of depression than White women, Black women simultaneously report high levels of depression and high levels of positive well-being, such as autonomy and personal growth. Quantitative analyses show that doing the "dirty work" (working in the service sector or as laborers) partially explains Black and Mexican American women's depression, while my interview data shed light on other labor market processes through which race matters. Specifically, the data suggest that experiences of racial discrimination at work contribute to the persistent detrimental effects of race and ethnicity on depression. The interviews also help us understand the puzzle of Black women's resilience in the face of structural disadvantages, specifically through the sense-making strategies they use to buffer the toll of employment. For instance, Black women assign different meaning to their work than White women in that they are less likely to derive their identities from their jobs. Also, in contrast to White and Mexican-American women, they tend to invoke their religious faith to garner emotional and psychological strength within stressful work environments.
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