| Description |
xii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-312) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Women in the labor movement -- United States.
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Women in the labor movement. |
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United States. |
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Women labor union members -- United States.
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Women labor union members. |
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Women -- Employment -- United States.
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Women -- Employment. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Cobble, Dorothy Sue.
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| ISBN |
9780801489433 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780801443220 cloth alkaline paper |
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0801443229 cloth alkaline paper |
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0801489431 paperback alkaline paper |
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