The sex of class : women transforming American labor / edited by Dorothy Sue Cobble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cobble, Dorothy Sue.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the labor movement--United States.

Women in the labor movement.

Women labor union members--United States.

Women labor union members.

United States.

Women--Employment--United States.

Women.

Women--Employment.

Physical Description:

xii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : ILR Press, 2007.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-312) and index.

ISBN:

9780801443220

0801443229

9780801489433

0801489431

OCLC:

74915904