257 Pages
by
Routledge
257 Pages
by
Routledge
257 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1999, this volume responds to the 1968 sewing worker strikes at the Ford Motor Company, asking how the worker demands made by women are to be heard and understood in workplace negotiations. At the time of original writing in the late 1990s, there remained many women workers whose needs and concerns remained hidden behind a workplace agenda dominated by male interests. Kay M.... Read more
Part 1: ‘Private’ Difference, Discrimination and Sameness. 1. The Private / Public Divide under Challenge. 2. Family Carers as ‘Workers’. 3. Women and Industrial Training. 4. Part-Time Work for Industrial ‘Outsiders’. Part 2. ‘Public’ Difference, Equality and Sameness. 5. The Construction of an Equal Pay Policy. 6. The Dilemma for Women Trade Union Leaders. 7. Masculinity and the Gendering of Equality. 8. ‘Women’ in Disarray. 9. The 1990s – and the Legacy from the 1960s.
Biography
Kay M. Fraser
