Equity, diversity, and Canadian labour / edited by Gerald Hunt and David Rayside.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, G. W. (Gerald W.), author.

Contributor:

Hunt, Gerald, 1948- editor.

Rayside, David M. (David Morton), 1947- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--Social aspects--Canada.

Labor unions.

Labor unions--Political activity--Canada.

Labor movement--Canada.

Labor movement.

Labor union democracy--Canada.

Labor union democracy.

Pay equity--Canada.

Pay equity.

Canada.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, the Canadian labour movement has undergone fundamental change in response to demands for greater inclusion and representation by women, visible and sexual minorities, and people with disabilities. Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour explores the specific challenges put to outmoded attitudes and practices, charting the efforts made by organized labour in Canada towards addressing discrimination in the workplace and within unions themselves. While there has been a fair amount of progress in this regard, persistent impediments to equity and uneven responsiveness within and across diversity issues remain. This collection of original essays brings together contributors from a variety of academic backgrounds - women's studies, political science, sociology, industrial relations - and from the labour movement itself to examine union policies, practices, and cultures with respect to diversity issues. The first comprehensive analysis of Canadian labour's response to challenges on gender, race, disability, and sexual orientation issues since the 1980s, the book aims to highlight the structural and cultural developments that have taken place within the labour movement around equality rights, and to provide a forum for debates about the extent to which union democracy has been reshaped as a result of equity activism.

Contents:

Looking back: A brief history of everything / Julie White

Bargaining against the past: Fair pay, union practice, and the gender pay gap / Anne Forrest

Union response to pay equity: A cautionary tale / Judy Haiven

Labour's collective bargaining records on women's and family issues / Karen Bentham

We are family: Labour responds to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender workers / Gerald Hunt and Jonathan Eaton

Broadening the labour movement's disability agenda / David Rayside and Fraser Valentine

Racism and the labour movement / Tania Das Gupta

Equity, diversity, and Canadian labour: A comparative perspective / David Rayside.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-9102-6

1-4426-8430-5

OCLC:

923083049