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The sex of class women transforming American labor

Title
The sex of class [electronic resource] : women transforming American labor / edited by Dorothy Sue Cobble.
Publication
Ithaca : ILR Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors
Cobble, Dorothy Sue.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 327 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Sex of class (Online)
Subject
  • Women in the labor movement > United States
  • Women labor union members > United States
  • Women > Employment > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-312) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Increasing class disparities among women and the politics of gender equity / Leslie McCall -- More than raising the floor : the persistence of gender inequalities in the low-wage labor market / Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha Werschkul -- Two worlds of unionism : women and the new labor movement / Ruth Milkman -- The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender challenge to American labor / Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris -- Sex discrimination as collective harm / Marion Crain -- Changing work, changing people : a conversation with union organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center / Lydia Savage -- Unions fight for work and family policies- not for women only / Netsy Firestein and Nicola Dones -- Working women's insurgent consciousness / Karen Nussbaum -- "We were the invisible workforce" : unionizing home care / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Expanding labor's vision : the challenges of workfare and welfare organizing / Vanessa Tait -- Worker centers and immigrant women / Janice Fine -- Female immigrant workers and the law : limits and opportunities / Maria L. Ontiveros -- Women crossing borders to organize / Katie Quan -- Representing informal economy workers : emerging global strategies and their lessons for North American unions / Leah F. Vosko.
LCCN
2006036018
OCLC
ssj0000541204
Title
The sex of class [electronic resource] : women transforming American labor / edited by Dorothy Sue Cobble.
Imprint
Ithaca : ILR Press, 2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-312) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Cobble, Dorothy Sue.
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