LEADER 04663nam 2200757 450 001 9910787202003321 005 20230501055439.0 010 $a1-4426-5987-4 010 $a1-4426-5528-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442659872 035 $a(CKB)3710000000324241 035 $a(EBL)3296649 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001403484 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12535963 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403484 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11365856 035 $a(PQKB)10653696 035 $a(CEL)417881 035 $a(OCoLC)903440883 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00915970 035 $a(DE-B1597)465606 035 $a(OCoLC)944178637 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442659872 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669962 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256476 035 $a(OCoLC)958512144 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669962 035 $a(OCoLC)903967825 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_106936 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000324241 100 $a20160920h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContracting masculinity $egender, class and race in a white-collar union, 1944-1994 /$fGillian Creese 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 225 1 $aCanadian Social History Series 300 $aOriginally published: Don Mills, Ontario : Oxford University Press Canada, 1999. 311 $a0-19-541454-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: gender, race, and clerical work -- Who gets ahead at the office? -- Becoming a union: a brief history of Local 378 -- Normalizing breadwinner rights -- Transforming clerical work into technical work -- Can feminism be union made? -- Restructuring, resistance, and the politics of equity -- Learning from the past, re-visioning the future -- Appendix: reflections on methodology. 330 $aThe history of labour in Canada is most often understood to mean - and presented as - the history of blue-collar workers, especially men. And it is a story of union solidarity to gain wages, rights, and the like from employers. In Contracting Masculinity, Gillian Creese examines in depth the white-collar office workers union at BC Hydro, and shows how collective bargaining involves the negotiation of gender, class, and race.Over the first 50 years of the office union's existence male and female members were approximately equal in number. Yet equality has ended there. Women are concentrated at the lower rungs of the job hierarchy, while men start higher up the ladder and enjoy more job mobility; men's office work has been redefined as a wide range of 'technical' jobs, while women's work has been concentrated in a narrow range of 'clerical' positions. As well, for decades Canadian Aboriginals and people of colour were not employed by BC Hydro, which has resulted in a racialized-gendered workplace.What is the role of workers and their trade unions in constructing male and female work, a process that is often seen as the outcome solely of management decisions? How is this process of gendering also racialized, so that women and men of different race and ethnicity are differentiallv privileged at work? How do males in a white-collar union create and maintain their own image of masculinity in the face of a feminized occupation and a more militant male blue-collar union housed within the same corporation? What impact does the gender composition of union leadership have on collective bargaining? How do traditions of union solidarity affect attempts to bargain for greater equity in the office? These are the central questions that Contracting Masculinity seeks to answer in this in-depth look at a Canadian union. 410 0$aCanadian social history series. 606 $aLabor unions$zBritish Columbia$vCase studies 606 $aDiscrimination in employment$zBritish Columbia$vCase studies 606 $aWhite collar workers$xLabor unions$zBritish Columbia$vCase studies 607 $aBritish Columbia$2fast 608 $aHistory. 608 $aCase studies. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLabor unions 615 0$aDiscrimination in employment 615 0$aWhite collar workers$xLabor unions 676 $a331.8804109711 700 $aCreese$b Gillian Laura$f1955-$01472062 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787202003321 996 $aContracting masculinity$93684670 997 $aUNINA