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- Title
Racial Segregation among Postsecondary Workers.
- Authors
Kulis, Stephen S.; Shaw, Heather E.
- Abstract
This article examines the racial composition, and degree of job segregation among current and recently hired employees in U.S. four-year colleges and universities. After describing aggregate level patterns of black representation by job category, a contextual analysis identifies organizational conditions under which the racial segregation of postsecondary workers is most, and least, severe. Hypotheses are derived from different views of the farces shaping racial patterns in the workplace: organizationed constraints on institutionalized discrimination, geographic location relative to local and national labor pools of black workers, and interInstitutional competition to attract relatively scarce black doctorate holders. Results highlight the role of local black populations in black representation at all employment levels and show smaller effects of internal and external institutional factors that may help curb discrimination: large size, formalization, public sponsorship, and reliance on federal sources of revenue. Measures of an institution's competitive position have small and inconsistent effects. implications for the status of black workers in colleges and universities are discussed.
- Subjects
EMPLOYMENT discrimination; RACISM; EMPLOYEES; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; ETHNIC groups; WORK environment
- Publication
Social Forces, 1996, Vol 75, Issue 2, p575
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2580414