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Peer reviewedWalshok, Mary Lindenstein – Urban and Social Change Review, 1978
An overview is provided of what is known about working class women and work (based on census data and the currently available body of research). The findings from an ongoing study of women in blue-collar and service occupations in three California cities are discussed. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Employed Women, Family Life, Research Reviews (Publications)
Walshok, Mary Lindenstein; Walshok, Marco Gary – 1978
Data from in-depth interviews with more than one hundred women over a three-year period suggest that the experience of women in skilled and semiskilled jobs contradicts the conventional wisdom about the values and motives of these women and challenge many sociological findings regarding the alienating character of much blue collar work. The women…
Descriptors: Adults, Blue Collar Occupations, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes
Walshok, Mary Lindenstein – 1977
Studies of emergent, previously unstudied groups in the context of a complex urban society (such as the Project on Working Women, a three-year study of women in nontraditional blue collar and working class jobs) present methodological problems related to sampling, interviewing, and methods of analysis. Crucial to a successful methodology are…
Descriptors: Adults, Blue Collar Occupations, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Walshok, Mary Lindenstein – 1979
Women's success in nontraditional blue collar jobs in the skilled trades or crafts appears to be tied to three separate but interrelated issues which are a function of differences in social background and shift in the structure of employment and economic opportunities for women, according to qualitative data gathered in in-depth interviews of more…
Descriptors: Adults, Blue Collar Occupations, Competence, Employed Women
Walshok, Mary Lindenstein – 1976
A two-year longitudinal study of 200 working women in California urban areas represents an effort to understand the processes by which specific interests and commitments to paid employment develop. Data from intensive personal interviews with women in traditional and nontraditional occupations should indicate factors which facilitate the entry of…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Case Studies, Employed Parents, Employed Women
Walshok, Mary Lindenstein – 1978
Not only has the overall participation of women in the labor force increased dramatically since World War II, but the internal character of the female labor force is changing. The greatest increases have been among married women and young mothers, groups which thirty-five years ago represented the lowest participation groups. Women workers have a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Blue Collar Occupations, Case Studies, Employed Parents
Walshok, Mary Lindenstein – 1976
A three-year study focused on 120 women in working class jobs (approximately 75% of which were nontraditional) in three major California cities. Emphasis was on searching out factors and processes facilitating greater participation of women in nontraditional blue collar and working class occupations. Attention was given to their personal and work…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Blue Collar Occupations, Career Choice, Case Studies
