アメリカの女性労働者運動<br>The Other Women's Movement : Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Politics and Society in Twentieth-century America)

アメリカの女性労働者運動
The Other Women's Movement : Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Politics and Society in Twentieth-century America)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 336 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780691069937
  • DDC分類 331.4

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. A YBP Library Services Bestselling Professional Titles, October-December 2003. 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.

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American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and argued for the dismantling of the masculine standard. 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. This book traces their impact from the 1940s into the feminist movement of the present. The labour reformers whose stories are told 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 n

Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix PREFACE xi TEXT ABBREVIATIONS xiii INTRODUCTION: The Missing Wave 1 CHAPTER ONE: The Other Labor Movement 11 CHAPTER TWO: Social Feminism Remade 50 CHAPTER THREE: Women's Job Rights 69 CHAPTER FOUR: Wage Justice 94 CHAPTER FIVE: The Politics of the "Double Day" 121 CHAPTER SIX: Labor Feminism at High Tide 145 CHAPTER SEVEN: The Torch Passes 180 CHAPTER EIGHT: An Unfinished Agenda 206 EPILOGUE: The Next Wave 223 ABBREVIATIONS FOR NOTES 229 NOTES 231 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 299 PERMISSIONS 301 INDEX 303