Contracting Masculinity : Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994 /

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The history of labour in Canada is most often understood to mean - and presented as - the history of blue-collar workers, especially men. And it is a story of union solidarity to gain wages, rights, and the like from employers. In Contracting Masculinity, Gillian Creese examines in depth the white-c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Creese, Gillian Laura, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
B.C. Hydro.
B.C. Hydro > Officials and employees > History.
Office and Professional Employees International Union. > Local 378 (B.C. Hydro)
White collar workers > Labor unions.
Labor unions.
Employees.
Discrimination in employment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Cols blancs > Syndicats > Colombie-Britannique > Études de cas.
Discrimination dans l'emploi > Colombie-Britannique > Études de cas.
Syndicats > Colombie-Britannique > Études de cas.
White collar workers > Labor unions > British Columbia > Case studies.
Discrimination in employment > British Columbia > Case studies.
Labor unions > British Columbia > Case studies.
British Columbia.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: gender, race, and clerical work
  • Who gets ahead at the office?
  • Becoming a union: a brief history of Local 378
  • Normalizing breadwinner rights
  • Transforming clerical work into technical work
  • Can feminism be union made?
  • Restructuring, resistance, and the politics of equity
  • Learning from the past, re-visioning the future
  • Appendix: reflections on methodology.

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