LEADER 04680nam 2200709 450 001 9910456505803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-04551-2 010 $a9786612045516 010 $a1-4426-7655-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442676558 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001637 035 $a(OCoLC)244768778 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219302 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000301214 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11237538 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000301214 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10258709 035 $a(PQKB)10070791 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00215971 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255394 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671662 035 $a(DE-B1597)464595 035 $a(OCoLC)944177872 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442676558 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671662 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257366 035 $a(OCoLC)958565333 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001637 100 $a20160922e19971994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLabour's dilemma $ethe gender politics of auto workers in Canada, 1937-1979 /$fPamela Sugiman 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1997. 210 4$dİ1994 215 $a1 online resource (315 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-7403-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and the Politics of Gender -- $t1. A Gendered Setting: The Southern Ontario Auto Industry and the UAW Canadian Region -- $t2. The Gender Politics of Men in the UAW (1937?1945) -- $t3. Femininity and Friendship on the Shop Floor (1937?1949) -- $t4. Becoming 'Union-Wise' (1950?1963) -- $t5. "That Wall's Comin' Down!': Industrial Restructuring and UAW Women's Struggle for Gender Equality (1964?1970) -- $t6. Social Change in a Complex Milieu (1970?1979) -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX -- $tPICTURE CREDITS 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aWomen automobile industry workers$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSex discrimination in employment$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAutomobile industry workers$xLabor unions$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen labor union members$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen automobile industry workers$xHistory 615 0$aSex discrimination in employment$xHistory 615 0$aAutomobile industry workers$xLabor unions$xHistory 615 0$aWomen labor union members$xHistory 676 $a331.4/78129222/09713 700 $aSugiman$b Pamela H$g(Pamela Haruchiyo),$f1958-$01040707 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456505803321 996 $aLabour's dilemma$92463782 997 $aUNINA