The sex of class women transforming American labor /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Cobble, Dorothy Sue.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2007.
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Table of 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.