| #11882834 in Books | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division | 1999-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.01 x.60 x5.24l,.71 | File type: PDF | 278 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| (gender, class, and race in) a Canadian union|By Jeffery Mingo|Numerous academics have pointed out how jobs are gendered and so often the universal worker is really the male worker. Well, here, Professor Creese using history shows how unions are also gendered (as well as racialized and stratified by class). Though union leaders say they fight for all workers, they really put||"Contracting Masculinity is a fascinating and provocative analysis of the role played by a trade union in structuring the workplace and the workforce...This book is well worth the attention of those interested in industrial relations, in women in the trade mov
The history of labour in Canada is most often understood to mean ? and presented as ? the history of blue-collar workers, especially men. And it is a story of union solidarity to gain wages, rights, and the like from employers. In Contracting Masculinity, Gillian Creese examines in depth the white-collar office workers union at BC Hydro, and shows how collective bargaining involves the negotiation of gender, class, and race.
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994 (Canadian Social History Series) | Gillian Creese. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
