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Title Women challenging unions : feminism, democracy and militancy / edited by Linda Briskin and Patricia McDermott.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 346 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note [Papers from] "the seminar series on Women and Unions: Industrial Relations, Collective Bargaining and Union Militancy, "--Page [xiii].
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Contents ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Feminist Challenge to the Unions""; ""Part One: Women on Strike""; ""1 The Eaton's Strike: We Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World!""; ""2 Alberta Nurses and the 'Illegal' Strike of 1988""; ""3 Reflections on Life Stories: Women's Bank Union Activism""; ""Part Two: The Politics of Gender within the Union Movement""; ""4 Union Women and Separate Organizing""; ""5 Trade Union Leadership: Sexism and Affirmative Action""; ""6 Women Working for Unions: Female Staff and the Politics of Transformation""
""7 Black Women Speak Out: Racism and Unions""""8 Unionism and Feminism in the Canadian Auto Workers Union, 1961�1992""; ""Part Three: Unions and Women Workers""; ""9 Patterns of Unionization""; ""10 Collective Bargaining and Women's Workplace Concerns""; ""11 The Gendered Dimension of Labour Law: Why Women Need Inclusive Unionism and Broader-Based Bargaining""; ""12 Can a Disappearing Pie be Shared Equally?: Unions, Women, and Wage 'Fairness'""; ""13 Unions and Women's Occupational Health in Québec""; ""14 From the DEW Line: The Experience of Canadian Garment Workers""
""15 Professions, Unions, or What?: Learning from Nurses""""Part Four: Studying Women and Unions""; ""16 A View from Outside the Whale: The Treatment of Women and Unions in Industrial Relations""; ""Authors""
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Subject Women labor union members -- Canada -- Congresses.
Women labor union members.
Canada.
Indexed Term Trade unions Participation of Women
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Briskin, Linda, 1949-
McDermott, Patricia.
Other Form: Print version: Women challenging unions. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©1993 (DLC) 94148010
ISBN 9781442683563 (electronic book)
1442683562 (electronic book)
0802028721 (bound)
080207376X (paperback)
9780802028723
9780802073761 (paperback)