On gender, labor, and inequality / Ruth Milkman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milkman, Ruth, 1954- author.

Series:

Working class in American history

The working class in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex discrimination against women--United States--History--20th century.

Sex discrimination against women.

Sexual division of labor--United States--History--20th century.

Sexual division of labor.

Women--Employment--United States--History--20th century.

Women.

Women--Employment.

Social classes.

History.

United States.

Social classes--United States--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define. Milkman's introduction frames a career-spanning scholarly project: her interrogation of historical and contemporary intersections of class and gender inequalities in the workplace, and the efforts to challenge those inequalities. Early chapters focus on her pioneering work on women's labor during the Great Depression and the World War II years. In the book's second half, Milkman turns to the past fifty years, a period that saw a dramatic decline in gender inequality even as growing class imbalances created greater-than-ever class disparity among women. She concludes with a previously unpublished essay comparing the impact of the Great Depression and the Great Recession on women workers"-- Provided by publisher.

"This project will present a retrospective of the scholarship of the influential sociologist Ruth Milkman, a charismatic and dynamic speaker and teacher as well as author. From her early work on women's labor history, job segregation by sex during World War II, and reversal of women's work opportunities after the war through more recent work on the work challenges and organizing struggles of marginalized immigrant worker groups, Milkman has contributed significant perspectives to the study of work and unionism in the United States. This volume provides a foundation for anyone seeking to understand gender and labor issues in both historical and contemporary contexts. Milkman will provide a substantial introduction to the volume and frame the material by adding section introductions and headnotes. She will also update much of the material"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Women's Work and Economic Crisis: Some Lessons of the Great Depression 13

2 Redefining "Women's Work": The Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto Industry during World War II 47

3 Organizing the Sexual Division of Labor: Historical Perspectives on "Women's Work" and the American Labor Movement 79

4 Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Managements Postwar Purge of Women Automobile Workers 119

5 Women's History and the Sears Case 139

6 Gender and Trade Unionism in Historical Perspective 164

7 Union Responses to Workforce Feminization in the United States 184

8 Two Worlds of Unionism: Women and the Twenty-First Century Labor Movement 205

9 The Macrosociology of Paid Domestic Labor Co-authored / Ellen Reese Reese, Ellen, Benita Roth Roth, Benita 225

10 Class Disparities, Market Fundamentalism, and Work-Family Policy: Lessons from California 253

11 Women's Work and Economic Crisis Revisited: Comparing the Great Recession and the Great Depression 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Milkman, Ruth, 1954- author. On gender, labor, and inequality.

ISBN:

9780252040320

0252040325

9780252081774

0252081773

OCLC:

926062626