Changing corporate America from inside out [[electronic resource] ] : lesbian and gay workplace rights / / Nicole C. Raeburn
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| Autore: |
Raeburn Nicole C (Nicole Christine)
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| Titolo: |
Changing corporate America from inside out [[electronic resource] ] : lesbian and gay workplace rights / / Nicole C. Raeburn
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.5/3/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Gays - Employment - United States |
| Gay rights - United States | |
| Corporations - United States | |
| Organizational change - United States | |
| Domestic partner benefits - United States | |
| Gay liberation movement - United States | |
| Industrial management - Social aspects - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Based on the author's doctoral thesis, State University of Ohio, 2000. |
| Data gathered from Fortune 1000 companies. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Corporations as the new frontier for lesbian, gay, and bisexual rights -- The rise of the corporate workplace -- The slowdown in new corporate organizing -- Building and benefiting from the movement -- Winds of change outside corporate walls: external factors influence gay-inclusive policies -- Corporate windows of opportunity: the impact of internal factors on gay-inclusive policies -- Changing the corporation from inside out: the power of employee activism -- Conclusion: movement success, theoretical and practical -- Appendix: The birth of gay employee networks and the adoption of domestic partner benefits. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A long-overdue study, Nicole Raeburn's analysis focuses on the mobilization of lesbian, gay, and bisexual employee networks over the past fifteen years to win domestic partner benefits in Fortune 1000 companies.Raeburn reveals the impact of the larger social and political environment on corporations' openness to gay-inclusive policies, and what strategies have been most effective in transforming corporate practices. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Lesbian and gay workplace rights |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Changing corporate America from inside out |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-9395-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452173603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Social movements, protest, and contention ; ; v. 20.