Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:35:41 -1000 From: Stephen E Philion <philion-AT-hawaii.edu> Subject: M-FEM: Women and trade unions In my last post I argued that it was wiser for a Marxist Feminist list discussion group to look at the actual history of the relationship between different unions and women and analyze the historical hows and whys the relationships in X unions have developed the way they have and what strategies are being employed by women in unions to advance a more progressive gender politics in unions....I'm not sure if anyone received that post or not, but.... One other reading in addition to the excellent article by Ruth Milkman on this topic that would inform such a discussion amongst Marxist feminsists, on or off this lists, would have to be *The Most Difficult Revolution--Women and the Trade Unions.*, by Alice H.Cook, Val R. Lorwin, and Arlene Kaplan Daniels (Cornell Press, 1992). In short, very short, the book is a comparative study of the situation of women in labor unions in Western Europe and North America covering such as women in union structures, collective bargaining, pay equity, part time work, labor market policies, government policies on work and house lives of women......." I offer such a book as a basis of a discussion of the history of women and the labor movement(s), which gets beyond generalizations about that history that are not in keeping with a Marxist-feminist methodology... Steve
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