Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Tradeswomen
Author: Live Wire
Author: Fran MoccioPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592137385
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In Live Wire, Francine Moccio brings to life forty years of public policy reform and advocacy that have failed to eliminate restricted opportunities for women in highly paid, skilled blue-collar jobs. Breaking barriers into a male-only occupation and trade, women electricians have found career opportunities in nontraditional work. Yet their efforts to achieve gender equality have also collided with the prejudice and fraternal values of brotherhood and factors that have ultimately derailed women's full inclusion. By drawing instructive comparisons of women’s entrance into the electricians’ trade and its union with those of black and other minority men, Moccio’s in-depth case study brings new insights into the ways in which divisions at work along the lines of race, gender, and economic background enhance and/or inhibit inclusion. Incorporating research based on extensive primary, secondary, and archival resources, Live Wire contributes a much-needed examination of how sex segregation is reproduced in blue-collar occupations, while also scrutinizing the complex interactions of work, unions, leisure, and family life.
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Author: Global Women's Work
Author: Beth EnglishPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351713477
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars, the book offers a gendered examination of work in the global economy and analyses the effects of the 2008 downturn on women’s labor force participation and workplace activism. The book addresses three key themes: exploitation versus opportunity; women’s agency within the context of changing economic options; and women’s negotiations and renegotiations of unpaid social reproductive labor. This uniquely interdisciplinary and comparative analysis will be crucial reading for anyone with an interest in gender and the post-crisis world.
The Women's Bureau
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Manpower and Housing SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Massachusetts. Dept. of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
We'll Call You If We Need You
Author: Susan EisenbergPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501719785
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A reissue of the 1998 ILR Press edition, with a new preface by the author.
Building Equal Opportunity
Author: Laurie W. LeBretonPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788149458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
The Kaleidoscope of Gender
Author: Catherine G. ValentinePublisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1506389112
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities provides an accessible, timely, and stimulating overview of the cutting-edge literature and theoretical frameworks in sociology and related fields in order to understand the social construction of gender. The kaleidoscope metaphor and its three themes—prisms, patterns, and possibilities—unify topic areas throughout the book. By focusing on the prisms through which gender is shaped, the patterns which gender takes, and the possibilities for social change, the reader gains a deeper understanding of ourselves and our relationships with others, both locally and globally. Editors Catherine Valentine, Mary Nell Trautner and the work of Joan Spade focus on the paradigms and approaches to gender studies that are constantly changing and evolving. The Sixth Edition includes incorporation of increased emphasis on global perspectives, updated contemporary social movements, such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, and an updated focus on gendered violence.
At the Point of Production
Author: Charles LevensteinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351845799
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"At the Point of Production", a compilation of contributions to "New Solutions Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy", locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad political economy. It argues that without a deep understanding of the social/political/economic context of particular industries or workplaces, we cannot fully grasp the process of recognition and control of industrial hazards. The contributors report on a series of case studies, all of which used the 'point of production' framework to investigate particular problems or industries.The focus of the first section is on globalization, the impact of privatization on the health and safety of workers and communities in Brazil and Mexico. The next section addresses environmental issues: the unintended effects of environmental regulation on workers, the situation of hazardous waste workers and emergency responders, the implementation of toxics use reduction, and the role of workers in pollution prevention. In the third section the contributors explore the intersection of labor relations with gender relations at the point of production. A final chapter deals with some of the practical issues involved in conducting occupational health research in the contested terrain of the workplace.