The Sex of Class by Dorothy Sue Cobble
Women now comprise the majority of the working class. Yet this fundamental transformation has gone largely unnoticed. 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...Cobble has edited an insightful volume that extends our understanding of how American unions are responding to the increased presence of women in the workforceSeveral chapters discuss how to implement flexible grievance and work systems to better serve women's needs to balance home demands with work and how to organize groups that were not thought of as ripe for organization, including females immigrant workers, informal economy workers, and home care workers.... Highly recommended.
* Choice *Dorothy Sue Cobble is Professor of Labor Studies, History, and Women's/Gender Studies at Rutgers University. 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801489433 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801489431 |
| Title | The Sex of Class |
| Author | Dorothy Sue Cobble |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ilr Press |
| Year published | 2007-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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