Women Challenging Unions is a collection of original papers that
presents a vision of an invigorated and vibrant labour movement,
one that would actively seek the full participation of women and
other traditionally excluded groups, and that would willingly
incorporate a feminist agenda. This vision challenges union
complicity in the gendered segmentation of the labour market; union
support for traditionalist ideologies about women's work,
breadwinners, and male-headed families; union resistance to
broader-based bargaining; and the marginalization of women inside
unions.
All of the authors share a commitment to workplace militancy and
a more democratic union movement, to women's resistance to the
devaluation of their work, to their agency in the change-making
process. The interconnected web of militancy, democracy, and
feminism provides the grounds on which unions can address the
challenges of equity and economic restructuring, and on which the
re-visioning of the labour movement can take place.
The first of the four sections includes case studies of union
militancy that highlight the experiences of individual women in
three areas of female-dominated work: nursing, banking, and
retailing. The second and third sections focus on the two key
arenas of struggle where unions and feminism meet: inside unions,
where women activists and staff confront the sexism of unions, and
in the labour market, where women challenge their employers and
their own unions. The fourth section deconstructs the conceptual
tools of the discipline of industrial relations and examines its
contribution to the continued invisibility of gender.
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