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Ruth Milkman - On Gender, Labor, and Inequality - 9780252040320 - V9780252040320
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On Gender, Labor, and Inequality

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Description for On Gender, Labor, and Inequality Hardback. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of Milkman's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define.

Milkman's introduction frames a career-spanning scholarly project: her interrogation of historical and contemporary intersections of class and gender inequalities in the workplace, and the efforts to challenge those inequalities. Early chapters focus on her pioneering work on women's labor during the Great Depression and the World War II years. In the book's second half, Milkman ... Read more

A first-of-its-kind collection, On Gender, Labor, and Inequality is an indispensable text by one of the world's top scholars of gender, equality, and work.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Working Class in American History
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040320
SKU
V9780252040320
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Ruth Milkman
Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at The CUNY Graduate Center. Her books include L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement and Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II.

Reviews for On Gender, Labor, and Inequality
"Milkman's book is a must read, not only to remind those of us influenced by her excellent work how significant her scholarship was and is, but also for new scholars who can trace the intellectual evolution of a labor studies author whose writing has always been grounded in painstaking empirical research, and simultaneously dedicated to analyzing the origins and operation ... Read more

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