Dorothy Sue Cobble is Professor of Labor Studies, History, and Women's/Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America and Dishing it Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century, and the editor of Women and Unions, Forging a Partnership, also from Cornell.

Cobble has edited an insightful volume that extends our understanding of how American unions are responding to the increased presence of women in the workforce. Several chapters discuss how to implement flexible grievance and work systems to better serve women's needs to balance home demands with work and how to organize groups that were not thought of as ripe for organization, including females immigrant workers, informal economy workers, and home care workers.... Highly recommended.(Choice)

• Introductionby Dorothy Sue CobblePart I. Women's Inequalities and Public Policy1. Increasing Class Disparities among Women and the Politics of Gender Equityby Leslie McCall2. More than Raising the Floor: The Persistence of Gender Inequalities in the Low-Wage Labor Marketby Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha WerschkulPart II. Unions and Sexual Politics3. Two Worlds of Unionism: Women and the New Labor Movementby Ruth Milkman4. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Challenge to American Laborby Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris5. Sex Discrimination as Collective Harmby Marion CrainPart III. Labor’s Work and Family Agenda6. Changing Work, Changing People: A Conversation with Union Organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Centerby Lydia Savage7. Unions Fight for Work and Family Policies—Not for Women Onlyby Netsy Firestein and Nicola DonesPart IV. Organizing Women’s Work8. Working Women’s Insurgent Consciousnessby Karen Nussbaum9. "We Were the Invisible Workforce": Unionizing Home Careby Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein10. Expanding Labor’s Vision: The Challenges of Workfare and Welfare Organizingby Vanessa Tait11. Worker Centers and Immigrant Womenby Janice FinePart V. Local–Global Connections12. Female Immigrant Workers and the Law: Limits and Opportunitiesby Maria L. Ontiveros13. Women Crossing Borders to OrganizeKatie Quan14. Representing Informal Economy Workers: Emerging Global Strategies and Their Lessons for North American Unionsby Leah F. VoskoReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex

Dorothy Sue Cobble is Professor of Labor Studies, History, and Women's/Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America and Dishing it Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century, and the editor of Women and Unions, Forging a Partnership, also from Cornell.

Cobble has edited an insightful volume that extends our understanding of how American unions are responding to the increased presence of women in the workforce. Several chapters discuss how to implement flexible grievance and work systems to better serve women's needs to balance home demands with work and how to organize groups that were not thought of as ripe for organization, including females immigrant workers, informal economy workers, and home care workers.... Highly recommended.(Choice)

• Introductionby Dorothy Sue CobblePart I. Women's Inequalities and Public Policy1. Increasing Class Disparities among Women and the Politics of Gender Equityby Leslie McCall2. More than Raising the Floor: The Persistence of Gender Inequalities in the Low-Wage Labor Marketby Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha WerschkulPart II. Unions and Sexual Politics3. Two Worlds of Unionism: Women and the New Labor Movementby Ruth Milkman4. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Challenge to American Laborby Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris5. Sex Discrimination as Collective Harmby Marion CrainPart III. Labor’s Work and Family Agenda6. Changing Work, Changing People: A Conversation with Union Organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Centerby Lydia Savage7. Unions Fight for Work and Family Policies—Not for Women Onlyby Netsy Firestein and Nicola DonesPart IV. Organizing Women’s Work8. Working Women’s Insurgent Consciousnessby Karen Nussbaum9. "We Were the Invisible Workforce": Unionizing Home Careby Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein10. Expanding Labor’s Vision: The Challenges of Workfare and Welfare Organizingby Vanessa Tait11. Worker Centers and Immigrant Womenby Janice FinePart V. Local–Global Connections12. Female Immigrant Workers and the Law: Limits and Opportunitiesby Maria L. Ontiveros13. Women Crossing Borders to OrganizeKatie Quan14. Representing Informal Economy Workers: Emerging Global Strategies and Their Lessons for North American Unionsby Leah F. VoskoReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex

Dorothy Sue Cobble is Professor of Labor Studies, History, and Women's/Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America and Dishing it Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century, and the editor of Women and Unions, Forging a Partnership, also from Cornell.

Cobble has edited an insightful volume that extends our understanding of how American unions are responding to the increased presence of women in the workforce. Several chapters discuss how to implement flexible grievance and work systems to better serve women's needs to balance home demands with work and how to organize groups that were not thought of as ripe for organization, including females immigrant workers, informal economy workers, and home care workers.... Highly recommended.(Choice)

• Introductionby Dorothy Sue CobblePart I. Women's Inequalities and Public Policy1. Increasing Class Disparities among Women and the Politics of Gender Equityby Leslie McCall2. More than Raising the Floor: The Persistence of Gender Inequalities in the Low-Wage Labor Marketby Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha WerschkulPart II. Unions and Sexual Politics3. Two Worlds of Unionism: Women and the New Labor Movementby Ruth Milkman4. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Challenge to American Laborby Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris5. Sex Discrimination as Collective Harmby Marion CrainPart III. Labor’s Work and Family Agenda6. Changing Work, Changing People: A Conversation with Union Organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Centerby Lydia Savage7. Unions Fight for Work and Family Policies—Not for Women Onlyby Netsy Firestein and Nicola DonesPart IV. Organizing Women’s Work8. Working Women’s Insurgent Consciousnessby Karen Nussbaum9. "We Were the Invisible Workforce": Unionizing Home Careby Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein10. Expanding Labor’s Vision: The Challenges of Workfare and Welfare Organizingby Vanessa Tait11. Worker Centers and Immigrant Womenby Janice FinePart V. Local–Global Connections12. Female Immigrant Workers and the Law: Limits and Opportunitiesby Maria L. Ontiveros13. Women Crossing Borders to OrganizeKatie Quan14. Representing Informal Economy Workers: Emerging Global Strategies and Their Lessons for North American Unionsby Leah F. VoskoReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex