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Addressing Segregation In The Brown Collar Workplace: Toward A Solution For The Inexorable 100%, Leticia M. Saucedo

Leticia M. Saucedo

This article suggests a theoretical and analytical framework for rethinking the causes of and remedies for workplace segregation. Taking lessons from civil rights and women’s rights struggles to eradicate segregated workplaces through existing anti-discrimination frameworks, it reviews the historical paradigm approaches to segregation, and their limited ability to eradicate segregation completely, as is evident in the continued existence of workplace segregation. Despite public perceptions to the contrary, segregated workplaces exist in greater numbers today, mostly because of the influx of newly arrived immigrant workers in low-wage industries throughout the country. These “brown collar” workplaces provide a good testing ground for …