Same Or Different - Gender Politics in the Workplace

List of contents

Part 1: ‘Private’ Difference, Discrimination and Sameness. 1. The Private / Public Divide under Challenge. 2. Family Carers as ‘Workers’. 3. Women and Industrial Training. 4. Part-Time Work for Industrial ‘Outsiders’. Part 2. ‘Public’ Difference, Equality and Sameness. 5. The Construction of an Equal Pay Policy. 6. The Dilemma for Women Trade Union Leaders. 7. Masculinity and the Gendering of Equality. 8. ‘Women’ in Disarray. 9. The 1990s – and the Legacy from the 1960s.

About the author

Kay M. Fraser

Summary

First published in 1999, this volume responds to the 1968 sewing worker strikes at the Ford Motor Company, asking how the worker demands made by women are to be heard and understood in workplace negotiations.

Product details

• Authors: Kay M. Fraser, Fraser Kay M.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781138351882
• ISBN: 978-1-138-35188-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Political Ideologies, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Gender studies, gender groups, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Political ideologies and movements