The sex of class women transforming American labor /
The sex of class women transforming American labor /
edited by Dorothy Sue Cobble.
- Ithaca : ILR Press, (c)2007.
- 1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations.
First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2007.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Increasing class disparities among women and the politics of gender equity / More than raising the floor : the persistence of gender inequalities in the low-wage labor market / Two worlds of unionism : women and the new labor movement / The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender challenge to American labor / Sex discrimination as collective harm / Changing work, changing people : a conversation with union organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center / Unions fight for work and family policies- not for women only / Working women's insurgent consciousness / "We were the invisible workforce" : unionizing home care / Expanding labor's vision : the challenges of workfare and welfare organizing / Worker centers and immigrant women / Female immigrant workers and the law : limits and opportunities / Women crossing borders to organize / Representing informal economy workers : emerging global strategies and their lessons for North American unions / Leslie McCall -- Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha Werschkul -- Ruth Milkman -- Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris -- Marion Crain -- Lydia Savage -- Netsy Firestein and Nicola Dones -- Karen Nussbaum -- Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Vanessa Tait -- Janice Fine -- Maria L. Ontiveros -- Katie Quan -- Leah F. Vosko.
9780801462481
Women in the labor movement--United States.
Women labor union members--United States.
Women--Employment--United States.
Electronic Books.
HD6079 / .S496 2007
First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2007.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Increasing class disparities among women and the politics of gender equity / More than raising the floor : the persistence of gender inequalities in the low-wage labor market / Two worlds of unionism : women and the new labor movement / The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender challenge to American labor / Sex discrimination as collective harm / Changing work, changing people : a conversation with union organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center / Unions fight for work and family policies- not for women only / Working women's insurgent consciousness / "We were the invisible workforce" : unionizing home care / Expanding labor's vision : the challenges of workfare and welfare organizing / Worker centers and immigrant women / Female immigrant workers and the law : limits and opportunities / Women crossing borders to organize / Representing informal economy workers : emerging global strategies and their lessons for North American unions / Leslie McCall -- Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha Werschkul -- Ruth Milkman -- Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris -- Marion Crain -- Lydia Savage -- Netsy Firestein and Nicola Dones -- Karen Nussbaum -- Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Vanessa Tait -- Janice Fine -- Maria L. Ontiveros -- Katie Quan -- Leah F. Vosko.
9780801462481
Women in the labor movement--United States.
Women labor union members--United States.
Women--Employment--United States.
Electronic Books.
HD6079 / .S496 2007