Gender, Class and Power An Analysis of Pay Inequalities in the Workplace /

• Main Author: Dawson, Tricia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Manpower policy.; Diversity in the workplace.; Economic sociology.; Sociology.; Business ethics.; Human Resource Development.; Diversity Management/Women in Business.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Gender Studies.; Business Ethics.

'This book, written by a former union officer turned academic, provides an extraordinarily detailed account of how gender inequalities became embedded in the print industry and failed to respond to formal policy efforts on the part of both employers and unions. It should be seen as a cautionar...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction,- 2. Theories of Discrimination
• 3. The Development of the Printing Industry: Workers' and Employers' Organisation
• 4. Missed Opportunities: The Failure of Union Solidarity in the Struggle for Control of the Labour Process
• 5. Gender or Skill: The Continuation of Segregated Work
• 6. Challenging Inequality: Employers and Unions
• 7. Wage Leadership: The Continuation of Unequal Pay
• 8. Conclusions.