The sex of class : women transforming American labor /

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Women now comprise the majority of the working class. Yet this fundamental transformation has gone largely unnoticed. This book is about how the sex of workers matters in understanding the jobs they do, the problems they face at work, and the new labor movements they are creating in the United State...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cobble, Dorothy Sue (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2007.
Temas:
Women in the labor movement > United States.
Women labor union members > United States.
Women > Employment > United States.
Femmes dans le mouvement ouvrier > États-Unis.
Syndiquées > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Women > Employment
Women in the labor movement
Women labor union members
Women.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Increasing class disparities among women and the politics of gender equity / Leslie McCall
  • More than raising the floor : the persistence of gender inequalities in the low-wage labor market / Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha Werschkul
  • Two worlds of unionism : women and the new labor movement / Ruth Milkman
  • The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender challenge to American labor / Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris
  • Sex discrimination as collective harm / Marion Crain
  • Changing work, changing people : a conversation with union organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center / Lydia Savage
  • Unions fight for work and family policies- not for women only / Netsy Firestein and Nicola Dones
  • Working women's insurgent consciousness / Karen Nussbaum
  • "We were the invisible workforce" : unionizing home care / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein
  • Expanding labor's vision : the challenges of workfare and welfare organizing / Vanessa Tait
  • Worker centers and immigrant women / Janice Fine
  • Female immigrant workers and the law : limits and opportunities / Maria L. Ontiveros
  • Women crossing borders to organize / Katie Quan
  • Representing informal economy workers : emerging global strategies and their lessons for North American unions / Leah F. Vosko.

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