Barbara Thomas Coventry
Biographic Data
| ID | 245645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Thomas Coventry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Coventry |
| SIGNATURE | COVENTRY B T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toledo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fifty Shades of Social Distance
For nearly a century, social scientists have explored various dimensions and applications of social distance. Bogardus invited a broad use of the concept with his statement that “the measurement of
Fifty Shades of Feminism
On the Sidelines
This study explores sex and racial segregation within television sports broadcasting. It uses logit log-linear analysis to examine the relationship between job classifications within sports broadcasting and such explanatory variables as sex and race. The results show that women are concentrated in competition-level reporting and reporting but are underrepresented as studio analysts and play-by-play announcers. People of color are most likely to b…
The Working Class Majority
Do men leave feminizing occupations
This article analyzes the 1970 and 1980 Public Use Samples of the decennial census and the 1983 Current Population Survey to determine if the degree of occupational feminization, i.e., the change in the percent female, affects men changing occupations. The results lend some support to the contention that men do not leave feminizing occupations. Men in occupations with the greatest increases in their percentage of female workers had the lowest per…
Unions’ empowerment of working‐class women
This research examines union membership's possible empowerment of unskilled women and these workers’ access to positions of power within union locals. The women worked as custodians, clerks, and cafeteria workers at a public, urban university and were members of the Communication Workers of America or the United Auto Workers unions. We found that these workers recognized the union's ability to limit the administration's power over their workforce…
Contested Workplace
This paper examines the struggle between labor and management at four, newly-opened supermarket/discount stores, culminating in a strike. It considers workplace control as an issue in the strike and its resolution. Edwards' typology of workplace control is reviewed, along with other indirect forms of control explored in recent literature. Workers complained most stridently about direct control mechanisms. Workers' objections to technical and bure…
Divided Against Itself
The paper reviews a case of local/international union conflict in the settlement of a supermarket strike and suggests that the assertion of local labor interests is central to the revival of U.S. unionism. The strike was led by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) against the Meijer supermarket chain in Toledo, Ohio in 1994. The eight and one-half week strike ended when representatives of the UFCW international accepted a contract …
Do men leave feminizing occupations
This article analyzes the 1970 and 1980 Public Use Samples of the decennial census and the 1983 Current Population Survey to determine if the degree of occupational feminization, i.e., the change in the percent female, affects men changing occupations. The results lend some support to the contention that men do not leave feminizing occupations. Men in occupations with the greatest increases in their percentage of female workers had the lowest per…
On the Sidelines
This study explores sex and racial segregation within television sports broadcasting. It uses logit log-linear analysis to examine the relationship between job classifications within sports broadcasting and such explanatory variables as sex and race. The results show that women are concentrated in competition-level reporting and reporting but are underrepresented as studio analysts and play-by-play announcers. People of color are most likely to b…
Fifty Shades of Feminism
Unions’ empowerment of working‐class women
This research examines union membership's possible empowerment of unskilled women and these workers’ access to positions of power within union locals. The women worked as custodians, clerks, and cafeteria workers at a public, urban university and were members of the Communication Workers of America or the United Auto Workers unions. We found that these workers recognized the union's ability to limit the administration's power over their workforce…
Divided Against Itself
The paper reviews a case of local/international union conflict in the settlement of a supermarket strike and suggests that the assertion of local labor interests is central to the revival of U.S. unionism. The strike was led by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) against the Meijer supermarket chain in Toledo, Ohio in 1994. The eight and one-half week strike ended when representatives of the UFCW international accepted a contract …
Unions’ empowerment of working‐class women
This research examines union membership's possible empowerment of unskilled women and these workers’ access to positions of power within union locals. The women worked as custodians, clerks, and cafeteria workers at a public, urban university and were members of the Communication Workers of America or the United Auto Workers unions. We found that these workers recognized the union's ability to limit the administration's power over their workforce…
Contested Workplace
This paper examines the struggle between labor and management at four, newly-opened supermarket/discount stores, culminating in a strike. It considers workplace control as an issue in the strike and its resolution. Edwards' typology of workplace control is reviewed, along with other indirect forms of control explored in recent literature. Workers complained most stridently about direct control mechanisms. Workers' objections to technical and bure…
Do men leave feminizing occupations
This article analyzes the 1970 and 1980 Public Use Samples of the decennial census and the 1983 Current Population Survey to determine if the degree of occupational feminization, i.e., the change in the percent female, affects men changing occupations. The results lend some support to the contention that men do not leave feminizing occupations. Men in occupations with the greatest increases in their percentage of female workers had the lowest per…
The Working Class Majority
On the Sidelines
This study explores sex and racial segregation within television sports broadcasting. It uses logit log-linear analysis to examine the relationship between job classifications within sports broadcasting and such explanatory variables as sex and race. The results show that women are concentrated in competition-level reporting and reporting but are underrepresented as studio analysts and play-by-play announcers. People of color are most likely to b…
Fifty Shades of Feminism
Fifty Shades of Social Distance
For nearly a century, social scientists have explored various dimensions and applications of social distance. Bogardus invited a broad use of the concept with his statement that “the measurement of
Political science (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works)