04949nam 2200805 450 991080711230332120230912133209.01-282-04551-297866120455161-4426-7655-810.3138/9781442676558(CKB)2430000000001637(OCoLC)244768778(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219302(SSID)ssj0000301214(PQKBManifestationID)11237538(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000301214(PQKBWorkID)10258709(PQKB)10070791(CaBNvSL)slc00215971 (DE-B1597)464595(OCoLC)944177872(DE-B1597)9781442676558(Au-PeEL)EBL4671662(CaPaEBR)ebr11257366(OCoLC)958565333(OCoLC)1378931470(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104909(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/9d9jfh(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/7/420805(MiAaPQ)EBC4671662(MiAaPQ)EBC3255394(EXLCZ)99243000000000163720160922e19971994 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLabour's dilemma the gender politics of auto workers in Canada, 1937-1979 /Pamela SugimanToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1997.©19941 online resource (315 p.) Includes index.0-8020-7403-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and the Politics of Gender -- 1 A Gendered Setting: The Southern Ontario Auto Industry and the UAW Canadian Region -- 2 The Gender Politics of Men in the UAW (1937â€?1945) -- 3 Femininity and Friendship on the Shop Floor (1937â€?1949) -- 4 Becoming 'Union-Wise' (1950â€?1963) -- 5 'That Wall's Comin' Down!': Industrial Restructuring and UAW Women's Struggle for Gender Equality (1964â€?1970) -- 6 Social Change in a Complex Milieu (1970â€?1979) -- 7 Conclusion: Constructing Gender and Equality -- NOTESThe growth of the United Auto Workers in Canada dramatically improved the lives of thousands of workers. Not only did it achieve impressive bargaining gains, but the UAW was regarded as one of the most democratic and socially progressive of the major industrial unions in North America. However, workers in the automotive sector, who constituted the largest segment of the UAW membership, witnessed blatant gender inequalities. From 1937 to 1979, UAW leaders did little to challenge these inequalities. Both the union and the workplace remained highly masculine settings in which male workers and bosses played out the gender politics of the times. Pamela Sugiman draws on archival materials and in-depth interviews with workers and union representatives to explore the ways in which the small groups of women in southern Ontario auto plants fought for dignity, respect, and rights within this restrictive context. During the Second World War, women auto workers formed close bonds with one another - bonds that rested largely around their identification as a sex. By the late 1960s, they were drawing on a growing union consciousness, the modern women's movement, and their gender identity, to launch an organized collective struggle for sexual equality. In describing the women's experiences, Sugiman employs the concept of a 'gendered strategy.' A gendered strategy incorporates both reasoned decisions and emotional responses, calculated interests and compromises. Within a context of gender and class divisions, workers developed strategies of coping, resistance, and control. Labour's Dilemma reveals how people may be simultaneously agents and victims, compliant and resistant.Women automobile industry workersCanadaHistory20th centurySex discrimination in employmentCanadaHistory20th centuryAutomobile industry workersLabor unionsCanadaHistory20th centuryWomen labor union membersCanadaHistory20th centuryOntariogndOntariofastCanadafastHistory.Electronic books. Women automobile industry workersHistorySex discrimination in employmentHistoryAutomobile industry workersLabor unionsHistoryWomen labor union membersHistory331.4/78129222/09713Sugiman Pamela H(Pamela Haruchiyo),1958-1674926MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807112303321Labour's dilemma4040062UNINA