| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Women now comprise the majority of the working class. Yet this fundamental transformation has gone largely unnoticed. This book is about how the sex of workers matters in understanding the jobs they do, the problems they face at work, and the new labor movements they are creating in the United States and globally. In The Sex of Class, twenty prominent scholars, labor leaders, and policy analysts look at the implication of this "sexual revolution" for labor policy and practice. The Sex of Class introduces readers to some of the most vibrant and forward-thinking social movements of our era: the clerical worker protests of the 1970s; the emergence of gay rights on the auto shop floor; the upsurge of union organizing in service jobs; worker centers and community unions of immigrant women; successful campaigns for paid family leave and work redesign; and innovative labor NGOs, cross-border alliances, and global labor federations. Revealing the animating ideas and the innovative strategies put into practice by the female leaders of the twenty-first-century social justice movement, the contributors to this book offer new ideas for how government can help reduce class and sex inequalities. They assess the status of women and sexual minorities within the traditional labor movement and they provide inspiring case studies of how women workers and their allies are inventing new forms of worker representation and power |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-312) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women in the labor movement -- United States
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Women labor union members -- United States.
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Women -- Employment -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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Women -- Employment
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Women in the labor movement
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Women labor union members
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Women.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cobble, Dorothy Sue, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780801462481 |
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0801462487 |
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