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The Sex of Class : Women Transforming American Labor / / Dorothy Sue Cobble
| The Sex of Class : Women Transforming American Labor / / Dorothy Sue Cobble |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.40973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Women in the labor movement - United States
Women labor union members - United States Women - Employment - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8014-6248-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List Of Abbreviations -- Introduction / Cobble, Dorothy Sue -- Part I. Women's Inequalities and Public Policy -- 1. Increasing Class Disparities among Women and the Politics of Gender Equity / McCall, Leslie -- 2. More than Raising the Floor: The Persistence of Gender Inequalities in the Low-Wage Labor Market / Lovell, Vicky / Hartmann, Heidi / Werschkul, Misha -- Part II. Unions and Sexual Politics -- 3. Two Worlds of Unionism: Women and the New Labor Movement / Milkman, Ruth -- 4. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Challenge to American Labor / Hunt, Gerald / Boris, Monica Bielski -- 5. Sex Discrimination as Collective Harm / Crain, Marion -- Part III. Labor's Work and Family Agenda -- 6. Changing Work, Changing People: A Conversation with Union Organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center / Savage, Lydia -- 7. Unions Fight for Work and Family Policies-Not for Women Only / Firestein, Netsy / Dones, Nicola -- Part IV. Organizing Women's Work -- 8. Working Women's Insurgent Consciousness / Nussbaum, Karen -- 9. "We Were the Invisible Workforce": Unionizing Home Care / Boris, Eileen / Klein, Jennifer -- 10. Expanding Labor's Vision: The Challenges of Workfare and Welfare Organizing / Tait, Vanessa -- 11. Worker Centers and Immigrant Women / Fine, Janice -- Part V. Local-Global Connections -- 12. Female Immigrant Workers and the Law: Limits and Opportunities / Ontiveros, Maria L. -- 13. Women Crossing Borders to Organize / Quan, Katie -- 14. Representing Informal Economy Workers: Emerging Global Strategies and Their Lessons for North American Unions / Vosko, Leah F. -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457132503321 |
| Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2011] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Sex of Class : Women Transforming American Labor / / Dorothy Sue Cobble
| The Sex of Class : Women Transforming American Labor / / Dorothy Sue Cobble |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.40973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Women in the labor movement - United States
Women labor union members - United States Women - Employment - United States |
| ISBN | 0-8014-6248-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List Of Abbreviations -- Introduction / Cobble, Dorothy Sue -- Part I. Women's Inequalities and Public Policy -- 1. Increasing Class Disparities among Women and the Politics of Gender Equity / McCall, Leslie -- 2. More than Raising the Floor: The Persistence of Gender Inequalities in the Low-Wage Labor Market / Lovell, Vicky / Hartmann, Heidi / Werschkul, Misha -- Part II. Unions and Sexual Politics -- 3. Two Worlds of Unionism: Women and the New Labor Movement / Milkman, Ruth -- 4. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Challenge to American Labor / Hunt, Gerald / Boris, Monica Bielski -- 5. Sex Discrimination as Collective Harm / Crain, Marion -- Part III. Labor's Work and Family Agenda -- 6. Changing Work, Changing People: A Conversation with Union Organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center / Savage, Lydia -- 7. Unions Fight for Work and Family Policies-Not for Women Only / Firestein, Netsy / Dones, Nicola -- Part IV. Organizing Women's Work -- 8. Working Women's Insurgent Consciousness / Nussbaum, Karen -- 9. "We Were the Invisible Workforce": Unionizing Home Care / Boris, Eileen / Klein, Jennifer -- 10. Expanding Labor's Vision: The Challenges of Workfare and Welfare Organizing / Tait, Vanessa -- 11. Worker Centers and Immigrant Women / Fine, Janice -- Part V. Local-Global Connections -- 12. Female Immigrant Workers and the Law: Limits and Opportunities / Ontiveros, Maria L. -- 13. Women Crossing Borders to Organize / Quan, Katie -- 14. Representing Informal Economy Workers: Emerging Global Strategies and Their Lessons for North American Unions / Vosko, Leah F. -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781353503321 |
| Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2011] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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