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