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Women and the labor movement :
occupational sex composition and union membership, 1983-2005 /
by Teri Jo Fritsma.

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Fritsma, Teri Jo.
Language(s)
English
Published
2007.
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Women labor union members
Labor unions
Labor unions > United States.
Women labor union members > United States.
United States
Summary
This dissertation brings together two distinct strands of labor market research. Studies on union decline seek to explain the dramatic drop in union membership and influence in the post-World War II era. Studies on occupational sex segregation seek to document how and understand why most women tend to work in occupations with other women. These two broad processes have received much of scholarly attention individually; but there has been little effort to understand how they might be linked. Historical accounts suggest that many unions practiced social closure, ignoring or actively avoiding the causes of working women. And as women have entered the labor market in large numbers in recent decades, they have generally taken positions in the socalled hard-to-organize sectors--industries and occupations that have little historical exposure to unionism, and are regarded as fundamentally incompatible with traditional unionism. My research links the two bodies of work by examining the extent to which varying levels of unionization across different sectors of the labor market is directly attributable to the varying sex composition of those sectors.
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221 leaves ; ill.
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