Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class, And Race In A White-Collar Union, 1944-1994 (Canadian Social History Series)

Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994 (Canadian Social History Series)

The history of labor in Canada is most often understood to mean--and presented as--the history of blue-collar men. And it is a story of union solidarity to gain wages, rights, and the like from employers. Creese here examines in depth one white-collar office union, and shows how collectivebargaining involves negotiating relations of gender, class and race. Review "Contracting Masculinity is a fascinating and provocative analysis of the role played by a trade union in structuring the workplace and the workforce...This book is well worth the attention of those interested in industrial relations, in women in the trade movement and in the history of what trade unions actually did following World War II"-Industrial Relations About the Author Gillian Creese teaches sociology, and is the former Chair of the Women's Studies Programme, at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on ways in which gender, race, and class shape work, migration, and social inequality in Canada. Combining archival data and interviews, sheexplores dimensions of the experiences, organization, and politics of working class women and men.