Introduction: The Feminist Challenge to the Unions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: The Feminist Challenge to the Unions 1
6. Part One. Women on Strike
7. 1. The Eaton’s Strike: We Wouldn’t Have Missed It for the World! 23
8. 2. Alberta Nurses and the ‘Illegal’ Strike of 1988 44
9. 3. Reflections on Life Stories: Women’s Bank Union Activism 62
10. Part Two. The Politics of Gender within the Union Movement
11. 4. Union Women and Separate Organizing 89
12. 5. Trade Union Leadership: Sexism and Affirmative Action 109
13. 6. Women Working for Unions: Female Staff and the Politics of Transformation 137
14. 7. Black Women Speak Out: Racism and Unions 157
15. 8. Unionism and Feminism in the Canadian Auto Workers Union, 1961-1992 172
16. Part Three. Unions and Women Workers
17. 9. Patterns of Unionization 191
18. 10. Collective Bargaining and Women’s Workplace Concerns 207
19. 11. The Gendered Dimension of Labour Law: Why Women Need Inclusive Unionism and Broader-based Bargaining 231
20. 12. Can a Disappearing Pie be Shared Equally?: Unions, Women, and Wage ‘Fairness’ 249
21. 13. Unions and Women’s Occupational Health in Québec 266
22. 14. From the DEW Line: The Experience of Canadian Garment Workers 284
23. 15. Professions, Unions, or What?: Learning from Nurses 304
24. Part Four. Studying Women and Unions
25. 16. A View from Outside the Whale: The Treatment of Women and Unions in Industrial Relations 325
26. Authors 343