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The other women's movement : workplace justice and social rights in modern America

Title: The other women's movement : workplace justice and social rights in modern America / Dorothy Sue Cobble.
Author: Cobble, Dorothy Sue.
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004.

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Description

xiv, 315 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

In this book, Dorothy Sue Cobble retrieves the forgotten feminism of the previous generations of working women, illuminating the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. This socially and ethnically diverse movement for change emerged first from union halls and factory floors and spread to the "pink collar" domain of telephone operators, secretaries, and airline hostesses. From the 1930s to the 1980s, these women pursued answers to problems that are increasingly pressing today: how to balance work and family and how to address the growing economic inequalities that confront us. The other women's movement traces their impact from the 1940s into the feminist movement of the present. The labor reformers whose stories are told in this book wanted equality and "special benefits," and they did not see the two as incompatible. They argued that gender differences must be accommodated and that "equality" could not always be achieved by applying an identical standard of treatment to men and women. The reform agenda they championed--an end to unfair sex discrimination, just compensation for their waged labor, and the right to care for their families and communities--launched a revolution in employment practices that carries on today.

Series Statement

Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Uniform Title

Politics and society in twentieth-century America.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The missing wave -- The other labor movement -- Social feminism remade -- Women's job rights -- Wage justice -- The politics of the "double day" -- Labor feminism at high tide -- The torch passes -- An unfinished agenda -- The next wave.

ISBN

069106993X
9780691069937
0691123683
9780691123684

LCCN

2003040466

OCLC

ocm51336537
51336537
SCSB-1312530

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library