The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801489431 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the author of The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America and Dishing it Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century, and the editor of Women and Unions, Forging a Partnership, also from Cornell.. Dorothy Sue Cobble is Professor of Labor Studies, History, and Women's/Gender Studies at Rutgers University
In The Sex of Class, twenty prominent scholars, labor leaders, and policy analysts look at the implication of this "sexual revolution" for labor policy and practice.The Sex of Class introduces readers to some of the most vibrant and forward-thinking social movements of our era: the clerical worker protests of the 1970s; the emergence of gay rights on the auto shop floor; the upsurge of union organizing in service jobs; worker centers and community unions of immigrant women; successful campaigns for paid family leave and work redesign; and innovative labor NGOs, cross-border alliances, and global labor federations.Revealing the animating ideas and the innovative strategies put into practice by the female leaders of the twenty-first-century social justice movement, the contributors to this book offer new ideas for how government can help reduce class and sex inequalities. Yet this fundamental transformation has gone largely unnoticed. Women now comprise the majority of the working class. This book is about how the sex of workers matters in understanding the jobs they do, the problems they face at work, and the new labor movements they are creating in the United States and globally. They assess the status of women and sexual minorities within the traditional labor movement and they provide inspiring case studies of how women workers and their allies are inventing new forms of worker representation and power.
great! Blu love this book. so helpful. covers a lot of great material. more peoples should be looking at intersections of sex and class at work
Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Center for WorkLife Law, University of California, Hastings "The Sex of Class is such an exciting book. Many of the chapters begin with compelling personal stories that draw the reader into the material. The Sex of Class is indispensable. This book is central if scholars are to understand what is happening to the U.S. Everyone who's part of the struggle for working women should read it."Linda Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice-President, AFL-CIO "Anyone interested in advancing either our understanding or our practice on class, gender, and the labor movement needs to read this collection, which includes some of the most creative thinking available on these issues. In The Sex of Class, she's brought together a remarkable group of essays that spell out why class inequalities are growing larger and how the working class i