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Women Workers in Fifteen Countries
Conference report, comparison of woman workers' employment experiences, partic. In regard to their perceived social role and sex discrimination, focusing on 12 developed countries - discusses equal pay and equal treatment issues, labour market segmentation, affirmative action, legal aspects, women's family and economic role, equal opportunity, etc. In China, Israel, USSR, Yugoslavia and selected OECD countries. ILO mentioned. References, statistical tables. Conference held in Ithaca 1983 Oct.
A Lifetime of Labor
"This book is both graceful autobiography and perceptive social history that will be of lasting value." --Library Journal
The Most Difficult Revolution
Over half the women in the United States are now employed outside the home, and the proportions are comparable in many European countries. Yet nowhere has this revolution in the composition of the labor force been followed by the triumph of a more difficult revolution—the struggle for full equality in the rights and roles of women. Building upon research begun by the late Val R. Lorwin and Alice H. Cook, Cook and Arlene Kaplan Daniels survey recent efforts of trade unions in Germany, Austria, Sweden, and Great Britain to ensure equal opportunity in the workplace. In identifying the successes and setbacks of the European experience, the authors consider the implications for change in the ag...
Personnel Literature
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United States Government Publications, a Monthly Catalog
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index.
Organizing the Shipyards
In Organizing the Shipyards, David Palmer documents the history of union organizing at three of America's largest private shipyards from the Great Depression and the beginning of the New Deal to the end of World War II. These yards had tremendous strategic importance because of their location in the Northeast's three port regions: New York Shipbuilding in the port of Philadelphia, Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard in the port of Boston, and Federal Shipbuilding in the port of New York. The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, which led each of the drives, pioneered industrial unionism and became one of the largest of the new CIO unions, with a quarter of a million memb...
