STUDIES & GUIDES ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

Please note that studies of recent strikes and of particular work groups in recent years are listed in Scholarship on Women & Labor. There are also some handbooks and guides from the 1970s included in the post-1945 section of Studies, Treatises, etc.

HD6095 .A664 1993 Amott, Teresa L. Caught in the Crisis: Women and the U.S. Economy Today. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. Survey, intended as accessible classroom text, of effects of Reagan-Bush era conservatism on women workers' lives on the job, at home, and in organizing activities.

HD4904.25 .B47 1997 Blossfeld, Hans-Peter, and Catherine Hakim, eds. Between Equalization and Marginalization: Women Working Part-Time in Europe and the United States of America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. A collection of longitudinal and cross-sectional studies that highlight the mixed implications of part-time work for women (i.e., flexibility in terms of domestic obligations, but inequalities compared to "norm" of full-time work).

HD6060.5.U5 B73 1992 Bravo, Ellen, and Ellen Cassedy. The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment: Candid Advice from 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women. New York: Wiley, 1992. Basic overview and guide to topic.

RA564.85 .D68 1984 Chavkin, Wendy, ed. Double Exposure: Women's Health Hazards on the Job and at Home. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984. Essays review health problems women face when working at home and in several occupational settings, and address such issues as maternity and trade union health policies.

HD6079.2.U5 C64 1991 Coalition of Labor Union Women. Bargaining for Family Benefits: A Union Members Guide. New York: C.L.U.W., 1991. Practical guide to winning and implementing flexible work policies, child care and elder care, and other family benefits.

HD6079.2.U5 E14 1992 Eaton, Susan C. Women Workers, Unions and Industrial Sectors in North America. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1992. A 78-page booklet that reviews where women are concentrated in occupational structures and assesses the progress of the US and Canadian labor movements in organizing women workers and ending gender discrimination in workplaces and in unions. Includes statistical tables and charts, bibliography, and brief cross- national comparisons with Mexico and Sweden.

HD6061.2.U62 M536 1997 Figart, Deborah M., and Peggy Kahn. Contesting the Market: Pay Equity and the Politics of Economic Restructuring. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. Political and economic analysis of pay equity movement in Michigan, with recommendations for further progress.

HD6510 .F7 1990 Frank, Miriam, and Desma Holcomb. Pride at Work: Organizing for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Unions. New York: Lesbian and Gay Labor Network, 1990. A one- hundred-page guide to combatting long-ignored subject of employment discrimination against sexual minorities.

HD6058 .F746 1997 Friedan, Betty. Beyond Gender: The New Politics of Work and Family. Washington, DC; Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Famous feminist advocates restructuring of the economy and policy to privilege "the family" and "people," rather than men vs. women, etc.

HF5548 .G37 1988 Garson, Barbara. The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. Journalist's findings that computer-driven automation has rationalized labor of a wide sweep of clerical, service, and professional workers.

HD6095 .G53 1993 Glazer, Nona Y. Women's Paid and Unpaid Labor: The Work Transfer in Health Care and Retailing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. Innovative analysis of recent trends in organization of commercial service work. Argues that managers cut labor costs by shifting work to women as unpaid consumers (with "self-service," e.g.) and as family caretakers (with shorter hospital stays, e.g.).

HF5548 .G717 1995 Greenbaum, Joan M. Windows on the Workplace: Computers, Jobs, and the Organization of Office Work in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Cornerstone Books/Monthly Review Press, 1995. Examining management policies, work processes, and design of office information systems since the 1950s, Greenbaum argues that it is not the introduction of new technologies, but economic restructuring and management reengineering of workplaces that have transformed office work.

HD6059.6.U6 J63 1989 Harlan, Sharon L., and Ronnie J. Steinberg, eds. Job Training for Women: The Promise and Limits of Public Policies. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

HD6058 .H395 1998 Helgesen, Sally. Everyday Revolutionaries: Working Women and the Transformation of American Life. New York: Doubleday, 1998. Using interviews with women from a Chicago suburb, argues that "ordinary" women and the strategies they have developed for negotiating the changing economy have been the prime factor in reshaping American life in recent years.

HD6095 .H75 1997 Huang, Fung-Yea. Asian and Hispanic Immigrant Women in the Work Force: Implications of the United States Immigration Policies Since 1965. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. Detailed, statistically driven economic analysis of recent trends in work force participation among married immigrant women.

HD6065.5.U6 K35 1983 Kamerman, Sheila B., Alfred J. Kahn, and Paul Kingston. Maternity Policies and Working Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Historical and contemporary review of maternity policies, from employers' as well as workers' perspectives.

HD6095 .W735 1987 Koziara, Karen Shallcross, Michael H. Moskow, and Lucretia Dewey Tanner, eds. Working Women: Past, Present, Future. Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs, 1987. First volume from Industrial Relations Research Association to focus exclusively on women and work. Essays look at women as managers, academics, and union members, and examine impact of race, age, and public policy.

HD6067.2.U6 R11 1990 Rabinowitz, Randy. Is Your Job Making You Sick? A CLUW Handbook on Workplace Hazards. New York: Coalition of Labor Union Women, 1990. Practical guide booklet on common workplace afflictions and union and government policies on occupational health and safety.

HD6060.5.U5 W66 1986 Reskin, Barbara F., and Heidi I. Hartmann, eds. Women's Work, Men's Work: Sex Segregation on the Job. Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1986. Detailed analysis of extent, causes, and consequences of job segregation by gender, with recommendations for change.

HD6060.65.U5 R473 1990 Reskin, Barbara F., and Patricia A. Roos, eds. Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

HD6060.3 .S49 1994 Szymanski, Sharon, and Cydney Pullman. Sexual Harassment at Work: A Training Workbook for Working People. Illustrations by Howard Saunders. New York: The Labor Institute, 1994.

HD6060.6 .W43 1996 Webster, Juliet. Shaping Women's Work: Gender, Employment, and Information Technology. London; New York: Longman, 1996. Overview intended as a college-level textbook of theoretical and empirical work on gender and technology in the workplace.

HD6079.2.U5 L3 Wertheimer, Barbara Mayer, ed. Labor Education for Women Workers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981. Anthology detailing various approaches and methods for designing, funding, and implementing programs.

KF3467.Z9 W65 Women's Labor Project. Bargaining for Equality: A Guide to Legal and Collective Bargaining Solutions for Workplace Problems that Particularly Affect Women. San Francisco: The Project, 1980. Discusses low wages, segregation, harassment, and double burden of home and work obligations. Outlines legal and collective bargaining strategies for change.