The Sex of Class : : Women Transforming American Labor /

The Sex of Class : : Women Transforming American Labor / / ed. by Dorothy Sue Cobble.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Boris, Eileen,
Boris, Monica Bielski,
Cobble, Dorothy Sue,
Crain, Marion,
Dones, Nicola,
Fine, Janice,
Firestein, Netsy,
Hartmann, Heidi,
Hunt, Gerald,
Klein, Jennifer,
Lovell, Vicky,
McCall, Leslie,
Milkman, Ruth,
Nussbaum, Karen,
Ontiveros, Maria L.,
Quan, Katie,
Savage, Lydia,
Tait, Vanessa,
Vosko, Leah F.,
Werschkul, Misha,
HerausgeberIn:
Cobble, Dorothy Sue,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2015
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 11 tables, 13 charts/graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List Of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Women’s Inequalities and Public Policy
  • 1. Increasing Class Disparities among Women and the Politics of Gender Equity
  • 2. More than Raising the Floor: The Persistence of Gender Inequalities in the Low-Wage Labor Market
  • Part II. Unions and Sexual Politics
  • 3. Two Worlds of Unionism: Women and the New Labor Movement
  • 4. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Challenge to American Labor
  • 5. Sex Discrimination as Collective Harm
  • Part III. Labor’s Work and Family Agenda
  • 6. Changing Work, Changing People: A Conversation with Union Organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center
  • 7. Unions Fight for Work and Family Policies–Not for Women Only
  • Part IV. Organizing Women’s Work
  • 8. Working Women’s Insurgent Consciousness
  • 9. “We Were the Invisible Workforce”: Unionizing Home Care
  • 10. Expanding Labor’s Vision: The Challenges of Workfare and Welfare Organizing
  • 11. Worker Centers and Immigrant Women
  • Part V. Local–Global Connections
  • 12. Female Immigrant Workers and the Law: Limits and Opportunities
  • 13. Women Crossing Borders to Organize
  • 14. Representing Informal Economy Workers: Emerging Global Strategies and Their Lessons for North American Unions
  • References
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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