Research Interests

• " 'Keeping People in Their Place:' The Economics of Violence," "Globalization and African Americans: A Focus on Public Employment," and, with Cecilia A. Conrad, "Single Mother Families in the Black Community: Economic Context and Policies," 2005. John Whitehead, Cecilia Conrad, Patrick Mason and James Stewart (eds.) African Americans in the American Economy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

• " 'Race Riots' and Black Economic Progress."  Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 30 (4): 51-66, 2003.

• "Strong Families or Patriarchal Economies? 'Familial' Labor Markets and Welfare States in Comparative Perspective." Luxembourg Income Study Workpaper No. 301. January 2002. Also available on Social Science Research Network website

• "Strong Families or Patriarchal Economies? Southern European Labor Markets and Welfare States in Comparative Perspective." RSC No. 2002/14, Mediterranean Programme Working Paper Series, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute of Florence, Italy.

• "The Complexities and Potential of Theorizing Gender, Caste, Race and Class" with Rose M. Brewer and Cecilia F. Conrad. 2002. Feminist Economics 8 (2): 3-18.
  
  

• Squaring Up, Policy Stategies to Raise Women's Incomes in the United States. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
  
  

• "Out in Front: An Interview with Barbara Bergman." with Lisa F. Saunders, Review of Political Economy, Vol. 12, #3, 2000.

• "Should Black Women and Men Live in the Same Place? An Intermetropolitan Assessment of Relative Labor Market Success." with Todd Easton, Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 27, #3, Winter 2000.

• "Differences in Wage Levels Between Metropolitan Areas: Less-Educated Workers in the United States." with Todd Easton. Regional Studies, Volume 34 #1, 2000.

• "Labor Market Segmentation" with Margaret Lewis and Janice Peterson (eds.) The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, 1999, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

• "Keeping People in Their Place: An Exploratory Analysis of the Role of Violence in the Maintenance of "Property Rights" in Race and Gender Privileges in the U.S." Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 31, #3, September 1999.

• "Interview with Marianne Ferber: Founding Feminist Economist." with Lisa F. Saunders. Review of Political Economy, Volume 11, #1, January 1999.

• "Are African-Americans Losing Their Footholds in Better Jobs?" Journal of Economic Issues, Volume 32, #3, September 1998.

• "Occupational Strategies of Lesbians and Gay Men" with M.V. Lee Badgett in Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed (eds.) Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community and Lesbian and Gay Life, Routledge: New York, 1997.

• "The American Labor Movement" with Harold Vatter and John F. Walker (eds.) History of the U.S. Economy Since World War II, M.E. Sharpe: Armonk, NY, 1996.

• Black Women's Labor Market Status: Occupational Segregation in the United States and Great Britain," The Review of Black Political Econommy, Volume 24, #1, Summmer 1995.

• "Human Capital and Black Women's Occupational Mobility," Industrial Relations, Volume 34, #2, April 1995.

• "An Assessment of Three (Somewhat) Competitive Explanations for Black Women's Recent Breakthrough into Clerical Work," Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 26, #3, September 1994.

• "Black Women's Breakthrough into Clerical Work: An Occupational Tipping Model," Journal of Economic Issues, Volume XXVII, #4, December 1993.

• "The Evolution of Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender, 1940-1988," Monthly Labor Review, Volume 115, #4, April 1992.