Contracting Masculinity : : Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994 / / Gillian Creese.
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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Creese, Gillian, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Contracting Masculinity : Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994 / Gillian Creese. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©1999 1 online resource (288 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Canadian Social History Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Gender, Race, and Clerical Work -- 1. Who Gets Ahead at the Office? -- 2. Becoming a Union: A Brief History of Local 378 -- 3. Normalizing Breadwinner Rights -- 4. Transforming Clerical Work into Technical Work -- 5. Can Feminism Be Union Made? -- 6. Restructuring, Resistance, and the Politics of Equity -- 7. Learning from the Past, Re-visioning the Future -- Appendix: Reflections on Methodology -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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-collar office workers union at BC Hydro, and shows how collective bargaining involves the negotiation of gender, class, and race.Over the first 50 years of the office union's existence male and female members were approximately equal in number. Yet equality has ended there. Women are concentrated at the lower rungs of the job hierarchy, while men start higher up the ladder and enjoy more job mobility; men's office work has been redefined as a wide range of 'technical' jobs, while women's work has been concentrated in a narrow range of 'clerical' positions. As well, for decades Canadian Aboriginals and people of colour were not employed by BC Hydro, which has resulted in a racialized-gendered workplace.What is the role of workers and their trade unions in constructing male and female work, a process that is often seen as the outcome solely of management decisions? How is this process of gendering also racialized, so that women and men of different race and ethnicity are differentiallv privileged at work? How do males in a white-collar union create and maintain their own image of masculinity in the face of a feminized occupation and a more militant male blue-collar union housed within the same corporation? What impact does the gender composition of union leadership have on collective bargaining? How do traditions of union solidarity affect attempts to bargain for greater equity in the office? These are the central questions that Contracting Masculinity seeks to answer in this in-depth look at a Canadian union. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Discrimination in employment British Columbia Case studies. Labor unions British Columbia Case studies. White collar workers Labor unions British Columbia Case studies. HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442659872 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442659872 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442659872.jpg |
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