Women Workers and the Trade Unions
Author : Sarah Boston
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Sarah Boston
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Alice Henry
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The book examines the history of women's labor organization and the relationship of working-class women to the campaign for woman suffrage.
Author : Sarah Boston
Publisher : London : Davis-Poynter
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Jennifer Curtin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429765592
First published in 1999, this volume aims to examine the extent to which such a partnership has been developed between women workers and trade unions, with a comparative emphasis. Jennifer Curtin analyses how women trade unionists have sought to make trade union structures and policy agendas more inclusive of the interests of women workers in four countries: Australia, Austria, Israel and Sweden.
Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1136247688
As paid work becomes increasingly central in women’s lives, the history of their labor struggles assumes more and more importance. This volume represents the best of the new feminist scholarship in twentieth-century U.S. women’s labor history. Fourteen original essays illuminate the complex relationship between gender, consciousness and working-class activism, and deepen historical understanding of the contradictory legacy of trade unionism for women workers. The contributors take up a wide range of specific subjects, and write from diverse theoretical perspectives. Some of the essays are case studies of women’s participation in individual unions, organizing efforts, or strikes; others examine broader themes in women’s labor history, focusing on a specific time period; and still others explore the situation of particular categories of women workers over a longer time span. This collection extends the scope of current research and interpretation in women’s labor history, both conceptually and in terms of periodization – emphasis is placed on the post-World War I period where the literature is sparse. This book will be valuable for scholars, students and general readers alike.
Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher :
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Valentine M. Moghadam
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438439628
Making Globalization Work for Women explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women in a global context. Looking at labor policies and interviews with people in unions and nongovernmental organizations, the essays diagnose the problems faced by women workers across the world and assess the progress that unions in various countries have made in responding to those problems. Some concerns addressed include the masculine culture of many unions and the challenges of female leadership within them, laissez-faire governance, and the limited success of organizations working on these issues globally. Making Globalization Work for Women brings together in a synthetic and fruitful conversation the work and ideas of feminists, unions, NGOs, and other human rights workers.
Author : Sarah Boston
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Labor union members
ISBN : 9781910448038
Sarah Boston recounts the story of women workers from the early nineteenth century to the present day: the struggles and strikes, successes and failures in their strenuous efforts to organise and win recognition from employers and male trade unionists. Women Workers and the Trade Unions - now republished with the addition of two new chapters covering the period from 1987 to 2010 - is the only comprehensive account of this neglected overlap of women's history and labour history. Sarah Boston argues that male trade unionists' exclusionary treatment of women workers contradicted not only the socialist aims of most trade unions but also the very logic of trade unionism itself. The account is essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of industrial relations, but also with the history of feminism and of women in the workplace. --
Author : Alice Henry
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Labor unions
ISBN :
Author : Linda Briskin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 1993-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 148759643X
Women Challenging Unions is a collection of original papers that presents a vision of an invigorated and vibrant labour movement, one that would actively seek the full participation of women and other traditionally excluded groups, and that would willingly incorporate a feminist agenda. This vision challenges union complicity in the gendered segmentation of the labour market; union support for traditionalist ideologies about women's work, breadwinners, and male-headed families; union resistance to broader-based bargaining; and the marginalization of women inside unions. All of the authors share a commitment to workplace militancy and a more democratic union movement, to women's resistance to the devaluation of their work, to their agency in the change-making process. The interconnected web of militancy, democracy, and feminism provides the grounds on which unions can address the challenges of equity and economic restructuring, and on which the re-visioning of the labour movement can take place. The first of the four sections includes case studies of union militancy that highlight the experiences of individual women in three areas of female-dominated work: nursing, banking, and retailing. The second and third sections focus on the two key arenas of struggle where unions and feminism meet: inside unions, where women activists and staff confront the sexism of unions, and in the labour market, where women challenge their employers and their own unions. The fourth section deconstructs the conceptual tools of the discipline of industrial relations and examines its contribution to the continued invisibility of gender.