Author: Trades Union Congress. Women's Advisory CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Report for ... of the TUC Women's Advisory Committee and Report of the ... TUC Women's Conference
Author: Trades Union Congress. Women's Advisory CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Report of the ... TUC Women's Conference
Author: Report of Proceedings at the Annual Trades Union Congress
Author: Trades Union CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Report of Annual Trades Union Congress
Author: Trades Union CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Patriarchy at Work
Author: Sylvia WalbyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745668984
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The concept of 'patriarchy' is one which signals a sharp divide between traditions of feminist thought. Sylvia Walby attempts to conceptualize 'patriarchy' in a way that takes account not only of the complexity of relationships of gender, but also of the subtleties of the interconnections of patriarchy and capitalism. She rejects those accounts which treat patriarchy as a unified set of relations, or which confine the site of patriarchy to any one privileged sphere such as the family. Instead, she elaborates a novel view of patriarchy as a set of 'relatively autonomous relations', the connections between which are spelled out through a variety of detailed case studies. In contrast to many other views of 'capitalist patriarchy', Sylvia Walby characterizes the relationship between capitalism and patriarchy as a relationship, not of harmony and mutual accommodation, but of tension and conflict. This thesis is substantiated through a comparative historical analysis of three contrasting areas of employment: cotton textiles, engineering and clerical work. These analyses show the shortcomings of much conventional literature in sociology, history and economics on women's employment, which pays insufficient attention to the independence of patriarchal relations. The book draws upon sociological, historical, economic and geographic materials to argue for an understanding of gender relations in terms of the specific tensions and compromises between patriarchal and capitalist relations. Exploring the impact of the state on patterns of employment and unemployment completes a book rich in theoretical and empirical analysis. Patriarchy at Work will be recognized as a major contribution to feminist thought and the social sciences.
Visible Histories
Author: Suzanne MackenziePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773562117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In this period, women brought about change in the interrelated areas of demography, domestic community work, and wage work, altering the environments in which family life and wage work were carried out. Changes in women's living and working environments led to the development of a series of new organizational networks in the areas of fertility control, childbirth, childcare, and wage work. These changes, as described by the women and men who lived them, are evaluated in terms of their potential to alter and extend the feminist tradition and the social environments through which people organize to create the structure of their daily lives.
Fighting Deindustrialisation
Author: Andy ClarkPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1837649502
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In Fighting Deindustrialisation, Andy Clark outlines and examines one of the most significant and under-researched periods in modern Scottish labour history. Over a fourteen month period in 1981 and 1982, as Scotland suffered the effects of the accelerated deindustrialisation of its economy, three workforces refused to accept the loss of their jobs. The predominantly women assembly workers at Lee Jeans (Greenock), Lovable Bra (Cumbernauld), and Plessey Capacitors (Bathgate) were informed that their multinational employers had taken the decisions to close their plants. At each site, a battle was fought against capital movement, corporate greed, and unfair jobloss. The workers occupied their factories and refused to vacate until their demands were met and closure avoided. At all sites this objective was achieved; none of the factories completely closed following the women’s occupations. In this book, these occupations are analysed together for the first time, through a range of analytical frameworks from oral history, memory studies, industrial relations scholarship, and deindustrialisation studies. In his extensive examination, Clark argues that the actions of 1981-82 should be considered as one of the most significant periods in Scotland’s history of deindustrialisation. However, the public memory of 1981-82 is precarious; Fighting Deindustrialisation begins the process of incorporating women’s militant resistance within academic and popular understandings of working-class activism in later 20th century-Scotland.
Same or Different
Author: Kay M. FraserPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429786565
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
First published in 1999, this volume responds to the 1968 sewing worker strikes at the Ford Motor Company, asking how the worker demands made by women are to be heard and understood in workplace negotiations. At the time of original writing in the late 1990s, there remained many women workers whose needs and concerns remained hidden behind a workplace agenda dominated by male interests. Kay M. Fraser utilises some of the insights offered by post-structuralist feminist theorists to interrogate the competing debates about women workers as they were discursively constructed by the organisations, institutions and individuals interested and involved in the employment of women during the 1960s. Fraser further explores notions of sameness and difference, how these were used to formulate a view of women workers and highlights the need for women to be seen, particularly by those involved in the workplace negotiations of the future, as both the same as and different from men workers.
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
Author: Susan PedersenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558341
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A comparative analysis of social policies in Britain and France between 1914 and 1945.
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