"Rights, not roses" : unions and the rise of working-class feminism, 1945-80
Explores how unionized wage-earning women led the struggle to place women's employment rights on the national agenda, decisively influencing both the contemporary labor movement and second-wave feminism. This title unravels a complex history of how labor leaders accommodated and resisted working women's demands for change.
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Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1. Beyond the Doldrums: Postwar Organized Labor and "Women's Issues," 1945-63 11 2. Prospects for Equality: Union Women, Equal Pay Legislation, and National Politics, 1945-63 11 3. The Roots of Discontent: Gender Relations in the United Packinghouse Workers, 1945-63 43 4. Accounting for Equality: Gender Relations in the International Union of Electrical Workers, 1945-63 89 5. Organized Labor, National Politics, and Gender Equality, 1964-75 114 6. Rank-and-File Militancy in the Service of Anti-Equality: Title VII and the United Packinghouse Workers, 1963-75 146 7. "A Genuine Good Faith Effort": Women and Equal Employment Opportunity in the International Union of Electrical Workers, 1964-80 166 Conclusion: From Equality to Equity 191 Notes 197 Index 253Illustrations follow page 88