Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-312) and index.
Contents:
Unions fight for work and family policies - not for women only / List of abbreviations -- Introduction / Nicola Dones -- and Women's inequalities and public policy -- 1. Increasing class disparities among women and the politics of gender equity / Leslie McCall -- 2. More than raising the floor : the persistence of gender inequalities in the low-wage labor market / Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha Werschkul -- pt. 2. Unions and sexual politics -- 3. Two worlds of unionism : women and the new labor movement / Ruth Milkman -- 4. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender challenge to American labor / Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris -- 5. Sex discrimination as collective harm / Marion Crain -- pt. 3. Labor's work anda family agenda -- 6. Changing work, changing people : a conversation with union organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center / Lydia Savage -- 7. Unions fight for work and family policies - not for women only / Netsy Firestein and Nicola Dones -- 14. Index. 8. Working women's insurgent consciousness / Leah F. Vosko -- 9. "We were the invisible workforce" : unionizing home care / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- 10. Expanding labor's vision : the challenges of workfare and welfare organizing / Vanessa Tait -- 11. Worker centers and immigrant women / Janice Fine -- pt. 5. Local-global connections -- 12. Female immigrant workers and the law : limits and opportunities / Maria L. Ontiveros -- 13. Women crossing borders to organize / Katie Quan -- 14. Representing informal economy workers : emerging global strategies and their lessons for North American unions / Leah F. Vosko -- References -- About the contributors -- Index.
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