Overview
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 labor movements they are creating in the United States and globally. 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. 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Dorothy Sue Cobble
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Imprint: ILR Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.907kg
ISBN: 9780801443220
ISBN 10: 0801443229
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 15 March 2007
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
The Sex of Class is such an exciting book. The narrative is clear and refreshing, tackling tough issues of gender and class inequality in an accessible and powerful way. Many of the chapters begin with compelling personal stories that draw the reader into the material. And this book is about more than sex and class, as it also targets the important racial and ethnic dynamics of the labor movement today. Rosemary Batt, Cornell University, coauthor of The New American Workplace
The Sex of Class is such an exciting book. The narrative is clear and refreshing, tackling tough issues of gender and class inequality in an accessible and powerful way. Many of the chapters begin with compelling personal stories that draw the reader into the material. And this book is about more than sex and class, as it also targets the important racial and ethnic dynamics of the labor movement today. -Rosemary Batt, Cornell University, coauthor of The New American Workplace
Author Information
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.
