Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Contradictions, Dilemmas, and the Politics of Gender -- 1 A Gendered Setting: The Southern Ontario Auto Industry and the UAW Canadian Region -- 2 The Gender Politics of Men in the UAW (1937-1945) -- 3 Femininity and Friendship on the Shop Floor (1937-1949) -- 4 Becoming 'Union-Wise' (1950-1963) -- 5 'That Wall's Comin' Down!': Industrial Restructuring and UAW Women's Struggle for Gender Equality (1964-1970) -- 6 Social Change in a Complex Milieu (1970-1979) -- 7 Conclusion: Constructing Gender and Equality -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- PICTURE CREDITS
Summary
Within a context of gender and class divisions, workers developed strategies of coping, resistance, and control. Labour's Dilemma reveals how people may be simultaneously agents and victims, compliant and resistant
