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Author:

Cobble, Dorothy Sue.

Title:

The other women's movement : workplace justice and social rights in modern America / Dorothy Sue Cobble.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xiv, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--Employment--United States.
Women's rights--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-298) and index.

Contents:

The missing wave -- The other labor movement -- Social feminism remade -- Women's job rights -- Wage justice -- The politics of the "double day" -- Labor feminism at high tide -- The torch passes -- An unfinished agenda -- The next wave.

Summary:

In this book, Dorothy Sue Cobble retrieves the forgotten feminism of the previous generations of working women, illuminating the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. This socially and ethnically diverse movement for change emerged first from union halls and factory floors and spread to the "pink collar" domain of telephone operators, secretaries, and airline hostesses. From the 1930s to the 1980s, these women pursued answers to problems that are increasingly pressing today: how to balance work and family and how to address the growing economic inequalities that confront us. The other women's movement traces their impact from the 1940s into the feminist movement of the present. The labor reformers whose stories are told in this book wanted equality and "special benefits," and they did not see the two as incompatible. They argued that gender differences must be accommodated and that "equality" could not always be achieved by applying an identical standard of treatment to men and women. The reform agenda they championed--an end to unfair sex discrimination, just compensation for their waged labor, and the right to care for their families and communities--launched a revolution in employment practices that carries on today.

Series:

Politics and society in twentieth-century America

ISBN:

9780691069937 (alk. paper)
069106993X (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2003040466

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OYAX081 -- Boone Campus Library (Boone)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)