Free agents or cogs in the machine? Classed, gendered, and racialized inequities in hazardous working conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Few epidemiologic studies have used relational social class measures based on control over productive assets and others' labor to analyze inequities in health-affecting working conditions. Moreover, these studies have often neglected the gendered and racialized dimensions of class relations, dimensions which are essential to understanding population patterns of health inequities. Our study fills these gaps.

Methods

Using data from the 2002-2018 U.S. General Social Survey, we assigned respondents to the worker, manager, petit bourgeois, or capitalist classes based on their supervisory authority and self-employment status. Next, we estimated class, class-by-gender, and class-by-race inequities in compensation/safety, the labor process, control, and conflict, using

SUBMITTER: Eisenberg-Guyot J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8752498 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature