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Through case studies of newspaper carriers, rural route mail couriers, personal care workers, and freelance editors - four groups who have led pioneering efforts to organize - the authors provide a window into the ways political and economic conditions interact with class, ethnicity, and gender to shape the meaning and strategies of working men and women and show how these strategies have changed over time. They argue that the experiences of these workers demonstrate a pressing need to expand collective bargaining rights to include them.
Price: $37.95
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication Date:
12 May 2005
ISBN: 9780773572737
Format: eBook
BISACs:
LAW / Labor & Employment, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship
Cynthia J. Cranford is assistant professor of sociology, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, economic restructuring, and labour organizing.
Judy Fudge, professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, is co-au