Women Challenging Unions : : Feminism, Democracy, and Militancy /

Women Challenging Unions : : Feminism, Democracy, and Militancy / / ed. by Linda Briskin, Patricia McDermott.

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Women Challenging Unions is a collection of original papers that presents a vision of an invigorated and vibrant labour movement, one that would actively seek the full participation of women and other traditionally excluded groups, and that would willingly incorporate a feminist agenda. This vision...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Armstrong, Pat,
Baker, Patricia,
Briskin, Linda,
Cuneo, Carl J.,
Darcy, Judy,
Forrest, Anne,
Fudge, Judy,
Kumar, Pradeep,
Leah, Ronnie,
McDermott, Patricia,
Mergler, Donna,
Messing, Karen,
Priegert Coulter, Rebecca,
Richmond, Penni,
Stinson, Jane,
Sugiman, Pamela H.,
Warskett, Rosemary,
White, Julie,
Yalnizyan, Armine,
HerausgeberIn:
Briskin, Linda,
McDermott, Patricia,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1993
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Feminist Challenge to the Unions
  • Part One. Women on Strike
  • 1. The Eaton’s Strike: We Wouldn’t Have Missed It for the World!
  • 2. Alberta Nurses and the ‘Illegal’ Strike of 1988
  • 3. Reflections on Life Stories: Women’s Bank Union Activism
  • Part Two. The Politics of Gender within the Union Movement
  • 4. Union Women and Separate Organizing
  • 5. Trade Union Leadership: Sexism and Affirmative Action
  • 6. Women Working for Unions: Female Staff and the Politics of Transformation
  • 7. Black Women Speak Out: Racism and Unions
  • 8. Unionism and Feminism in the Canadian Auto Workers Union, 1961-1992
  • Part Three. Unions and Women Workers
  • 9. Patterns of Unionization
  • 10. Collective Bargaining and Women’s Workplace Concerns
  • 11. The Gendered Dimension of Labour Law: Why Women Need Inclusive Unionism and Broader-based Bargaining
  • 12. Can a Disappearing Pie be Shared Equally?: Unions, Women, and Wage ‘Fairness’
  • 13. Unions and Women’s Occupational Health in Québec
  • 14. From the DEW Line: The Experience of Canadian Garment Workers
  • 15. Professions, Unions, or What?: Learning from Nurses
  • Part Four. Studying Women and Unions
  • 16. A View from Outside the Whale: The Treatment of Women and Unions in Industrial Relations
  • Authors

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