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The other women's movement : workplace justice and social rights in modern America / Dorothy Sue Cobble.
Author
Cobble, Dorothy Sue
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Language
English
Published/Created
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
Description
xiv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Subject(s)
Women
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Employment
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United States
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Women's rights
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United States
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Women
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Employment
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Women's rights
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Women's rights
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Series
Politics and society in twentieth-century America
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Summary note
In this book, 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. The other women's movement traces their impact from the 1940s into the feminist movement of the present. The labor reformers whose stories are told in this book 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 not always be achieved by applying an identical standard of treatment to men and women. The reform agenda they championed--an end to unfair sex discrimination, just compensation for their waged labor, and the right to care for their families and communities--launched a revolution in employment practices that carries on today.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The missing wave
The other labor movement
Social feminism remade
Women's job rights
Wage justice
The politics of the "double day"
Labor feminism at high tide
The torch passes
An unfinished agenda
The next wave.
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ISBN
069106993X ((alk. paper))
9780691069937 ((alk. paper))
0691123683
9780691123684
LCCN
2003040466
OCLC
51336537
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