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The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor |
Dorothy Sue Cobble
Cornell University Press
The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor
9. “We Were the Invisible Workforce”: Unionizing Home Care
Authors

Eileen Boris; Jennifer Klein

ARI Id

1667009861708_8549421

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Not Available Free

Pages

177

DOI

10.7591/9780801462481-012

Chapter URL

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9780801462481-012/html

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Frontmatter
i
Contents
v
Acknowledgments
vii
List Of Abbreviations
ix
Introduction
Dorothy Sue Cobble
1
1. Increasing Class Disparities among Women and the Politics of Gender Equity
Leslie McCall
13
2. More than Raising the Floor: The Persistence of Gender Inequalities in the Low-Wage Labor Market
Vicky Lovell; Heidi Hartmann; Misha Werschkul
35
3. Two Worlds of Unionism: Women and the New Labor Movement
Ruth Milkman
59
4. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Challenge to American Labor
Gerald Hunt; Monica Bielski Boris
81
5. Sex Discrimination as Collective Harm
Marion Crain
99
6. Changing Work, Changing People: A Conversation with Union Organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center
Lydia Savage
117
7. Unions Fight for Work and Family Policies–Not for Women Only
Netsy Firestein; Nicola Dones
140
8. Working Women’s Insurgent Consciousness
Karen Nussbaum
155
9. “We Were the Invisible Workforce”: Unionizing Home Care
Eileen Boris; Jennifer Klein
177
10. Expanding Labor’s Vision: The Challenges of Workfare and Welfare Organizing
Vanessa Tait
194
11. Worker Centers and Immigrant Women
Janice Fine
211
12. Female Immigrant Workers and the Law: Limits and Opportunities
Maria L. Ontiveros
231
13. Women Crossing Borders to Organize
Katie Quan
253
14. Representing Informal Economy Workers: Emerging Global Strategies and Their Lessons for North American Unions
Leah F. Vosko
272
References
293
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