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

Contributor(s): Cobble, Dorothy Sue | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2007Description: xii, 327 p. : illISBN: 9780801462481 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Women in the labor movement -- United States | Women labor union members -- United States | Women -- Employment -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.40973 LOC classification: HD6079.2.U5 | S49 2007Online resources: Click to View
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.
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First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2007.

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

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.

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