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Author Creese, Gillian

Title Contracting Masculinity : Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Series Canadian Social History Series
Canadian social history series.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Gender, Race, and Clerical Work -- 1 Who Gets Ahead at the Office? -- 2 Becoming a Union: A Brief History of Local 378 -- 3 Normalizing Breadwinner Rights -- 4 Transforming Clerical Work into Technical Work -- 5 Can Feminism Be Union Made? -- 6 Restructuring, Resistance, and the Politics of Equity -- 7 Learning from the Past, Re-visioning the Future -- Appendix: Reflections on Methodology -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Summary 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
Notes Print version record
Subject Office and Professional Employees International Union. Local 378 (Vancouver, B.C.) -- History
SUBJECT Office and Professional Employees International Union. Local 378 (Vancouver, B.C.) fast
Subject Labor unions -- British Columbia -- Case studies
Discrimination in employment -- British Columbia -- Case studies
White collar workers -- Labor unions -- British Columbia -- Case studies
Discrimination in employment
Labor unions
White collar workers -- Labor unions
British Columbia
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442659872
1442659874