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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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