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Becker, Henry Jay – Social Forces, 1980
The most racially segregated groups are laborers and service workers. At each occupational level, women are more racially segregated than are men. The racial composition of any single occupational group at a particular work place tends to follow the racial composition of workers in other occupations at that establishment. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Blue Collar Occupations, Females, Males