| Contents |
Increasing class disparities among women and the politics of gender equity / Leslie McCall -- More than raising the floor : the persistence of gender inequalities in the low-wage labor market / Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha Werschkul -- Two worlds of unionism : women and the new labor movement / Ruth Milkman -- The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender challenge to American labor / Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris -- Sex discrimination as collective harm / Marion Crain -- Changing work, changing people : a conversation with union organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center / Lydia Savage -- Unions fight for work and family policies- not for women only / Netsy Firestein and Nicola Dones -- Working women's insurgent consciousness / Karen Nussbaum -- "We were the invisible workforce" : unionizing home care / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Expanding labor's vision : the challenges of workfare and welfare organizing / Vanessa Tait -- Worker centers and immigrant women / Janice Fine -- Female immigrant workers and the law : limits and opportunities / Maria L. Ontiveros -- Women crossing borders to organize / Katie Quan -- Representing informal economy workers : emerging global strategies and their lessons for North American unions / Leah F. Vosko. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-312) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006036018 |
| ISBN | 9780801443220 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801443229 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780801489433 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801489431 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
