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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Creese, Gillian,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1999
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Canadian Social History Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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