Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class, and Pay Equity

by Joan Acker

Book Overview

Doing Comparable Worth is the first empirical study of the actual process of attempting to translate into reality the idea of equal pay for work of equal value. This political ethnography documents a large project undertaken by the state of Oregon to evaluate 35,000 jobs of state employees, identify gender-based pay inequities, and remedy these inequities. The book details both the technical and political processes, showing how the technical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877226210
• ISBN13: 9780877226215
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.