Women and unions in occupied Japan -- The erotic and the vulgar -- Wage struggles and struggle politics -- Teachers and …

Women now comprise the majority of the working class. Yet this fundamental transformation has gone largely unnoticed …Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Women's Inequalities and … Public Policy -- 1. Increasing Class Disparities among Women and the Politics of Gender Equity -- 2. More than Raising the …

"This book addresses how a group of low-wage and primarily African American women workers found an industrial and … women laundry workers. The women's relationship to the work and to the union movement was at all times mediated by race and … create divisions among their workers. Yet while race and gender limited African American and White women's occupational …

"Examines the stories of more than 100 women and their varied experiences during the miners' strike of 1984-1985 to … shed new light on working-class women's relationship to the 'political' and the 'ordinary', and demonstrate the ways in …