Sex of Class

Women Transforming American Labor

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

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. In clear, crisp prose, 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. The Sex of Class reveals 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-03-15
Mått:155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt:907 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Cornell University Press
ISBN:9780801443220

Utforska kategorier

Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Arbetsmarknaden inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

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)

Innehållsförteckning

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