On Gender, Labor, and Inequality - Couverture souple

Milkman, Ruth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252081773 ISBN 13 : 9780252081774

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2016

Synopsis

Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define.

Milkman's introduction frames a career-spanning scholarly project: her interrogation of historical and contemporary intersections of class and gender inequalities in the workplace, and the efforts to challenge those inequalities. Early chapters focus on her pioneering work on women's labor during the Great Depression and the World War II years. In the book's second half, Milkman turns to the past fifty years, a period that saw a dramatic decline in gender inequality even as growing class imbalances created greater-than-ever class disparity among women. She concludes with a previously unpublished essay comparing the impact of the Great Depression and the Great Recession on women workers.

A first-of-its-kind collection, On Gender, Labor, and Inequality is an indispensable text by one of the world's top scholars of gender, equality, and work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at The CUNY Graduate Center. Her books include L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement and Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252081773
• ISBN 13: 9780252081774
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 328
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• Personne responsable: non disponible