Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement

by Linda M. Blum

Book Overview

"Equal pay for equal work" has long been a forceful slogan of the feminist and labor movements. Now, however, as the American economy depends more and more on "women's work," it has become clear that this objective does not benefit the majority of women, who are employed in sex-segregated jobs. In Between Feminism and Labor, Linda M. Blum examines the movement for comparable worth, or equal pay for comparable work, as a strategy to raise wages...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520072596
• ISBN13: 9780520072596
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"