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Changing corporate America from inside out : lesbian and gay workplace rights / Nicole C. Raeburn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raeburn, Nicole C. (Nicole Christine)
- Series:
- Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 20.
- Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people--Employment--United States.
- Gay people.
- Gay rights--United States.
- Gay rights.
- Corporations--United States.
- Corporations.
- Organizational change--United States.
- Organizational change.
- Domestic partner benefits--United States.
- Domestic partner benefits.
- Gay liberation movement--United States.
- Gay liberation movement.
- Industrial management--Social aspects--United States.
- Industrial management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Lesbian and gay workplace rights
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A long-overdue study, Nicole Raeburn's analysis focuses on the mobilization of lesbian, gay, and bisexual employee networks over the past fifteen years to win domestic partner benefits in Fortune 1000 companies.Raeburn reveals the impact of the larger social and political environment on corporations' openness to gay-inclusive policies, and what strategies have been most effective in transforming corporate practices.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Corporations as the new frontier for lesbian, gay, and bisexual rights
- The rise of the corporate workplace
- The slowdown in new corporate organizing
- Building and benefiting from the movement
- Winds of change outside corporate walls: external factors influence gay-inclusive policies
- Corporate windows of opportunity: the impact of internal factors on gay-inclusive policies
- Changing the corporation from inside out: the power of employee activism
- Conclusion: movement success, theoretical and practical
- Appendix: The birth of gay employee networks and the adoption of domestic partner benefits.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's doctoral thesis, State University of Ohio, 2000.
- Data gathered from Fortune 1000 companies.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9395-1
- OCLC:
- 476095546
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