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The sex of class : women transforming American labor
- Title
- The sex of class : women transforming American labor / edited by Dorothy Sue Cobble.
- Publication
- Ithaca : ILR Press, 2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Cobble, Dorothy Sue.
- Description
- xii, 327 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-312) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Women's inequalities and public policy -- 1. Increasing class disparities among women and the politics of gender equity / Leslie McCall -- 2. More than raising the floor : the persistence of gender inequalities in the low-wage labor market / Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann and Misha Werschkul -- Pt. II. Unions and sexual politics -- 3. Two worlds of unionism : women and the new labor movement / Ruth Milkman -- 4. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender challenge to American labor / Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris -- 5. Sex discrimination as collective harm / Marion Crain -- Pt. III. Labor's work and family agenda -- 6. Changing work, changing people : a conversation with union organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center / Lydia Savage -- 7. Unions fight for work and family policies - not for women only / Netsy Firestein and Nicola Dones -- Pt. IV. Organizing women's work -- 8. Working women's insurgent consciousness / Karen Nussbaum -- 9. "We were the invisible workforce" : unionizing home care / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- 10. Expanding labor's vision : the challenges of workfare and welfare organizing / Vanessa Tait -- 11. Worker centers and immigrant women / Janice Fine -- Pt. V. Local-global connections -- 12. Female immigrant workers and the law : limits and opportunities / Maria L. Ontiveros -- 13. Women crossing borders to organize / Katie Ouan -- 14. Representing informal economy workers : emerging global strategies and their lessons for North American unions / Leah F. Vosko.
- ISBN
- 9780801443220 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801443229 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801489433 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801489431 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006036018
- OCLC
- OCM74915904
- 74915904
- SCSB-5927863
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries