Mercedes Steedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mercedes Steedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mercedes |
| FAMILY NAME | Steedman |
| SIGNATURE | STEEDMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Laurentian University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap and the Overtime Pay Exemption in Ontario
Employment Standards (es) legislation sets minimum terms and conditions of employment in areas such as wages, working time, vacations and leaves, and termination and severance. es legislation is designed to provide minimum workplace protections, particularly for those with little bargaining power in the labour market. In practice, however, es legislation includes ways in which legislated standards may be avoided, including through exemptions that…
Angels of the Workplace
Art as Activism
Popular theater has significant, although largely overlooked, potential as a tool for unions to raise members’ political consciousness and strengthen their relationship to the union movement. Activist theater validates workers’ own knowledge, builds workers’ solidarity and self-confidence, and fosters an activist culture. It can also raise gender consciousness within unions. It has particular value for unions attempting to organize precarious wor…
On Strike and On Film
Organizing the Electronic Sweatshop
The Security State and the State of Civil Liberties
Steve Hewitt, Spying 101. The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2002) Gary Kinsman, Dieter K. Buse, and Mercedes Steedman, eds., Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies (Toronto: Between the Lines 2000) W. Wesley Pue, ed., Pepper In Our Eyes: The APEC Affair (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 2000
Making the Amalgamated
Journal Article Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899–1939. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii, 229 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5989-1.) Get access Mercedes Steedman Mercedes Steedman Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, Septembe…
Angels of the Workplace
Journal Article Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890–1940. By Mercedes Steedman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x, 333 pp. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-541308-3.) Get access Eileen Boris Eileen Boris University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue…
Angels of the Workplace
Ready-to-Wear, Ready-to-Work
Hard Lessons
The Promise
This paper deals with the Needle Trades Industrial Union (NITU) organization drive in the garment industry of the cities of Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg. I argue that the relative success of this branch of the Workers Unity League (WUL) in unionizing the female workforce originates in part from the union's internal representation structure. Women's work was isolated from men's by the sharp gender division of work, which characterized the garme…
Through the Eye of the Needle
The Eaton Drive
Diary of a Strike
The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap and the Overtime Pay Exemption in Ontario
Employment Standards (es) legislation sets minimum terms and conditions of employment in areas such as wages, working time, vacations and leaves, and termination and severance. es legislation is designed to provide minimum workplace protections, particularly for those with little bargaining power in the labour market. In practice, however, es legislation includes ways in which legislated standards may be avoided, including through exemptions that…
Angels of the Workplace
The Promise
This paper deals with the Needle Trades Industrial Union (NITU) organization drive in the garment industry of the cities of Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg. I argue that the relative success of this branch of the Workers Unity League (WUL) in unionizing the female workforce originates in part from the union's internal representation structure. Women's work was isolated from men's by the sharp gender division of work, which characterized the garme…
Through the Eye of the Needle
The Eaton Drive
Organizing the Electronic Sweatshop
Hard Lessons
Art as Activism
Popular theater has significant, although largely overlooked, potential as a tool for unions to raise members’ political consciousness and strengthen their relationship to the union movement. Activist theater validates workers’ own knowledge, builds workers’ solidarity and self-confidence, and fosters an activist culture. It can also raise gender consciousness within unions. It has particular value for unions attempting to organize precarious wor…
Ready-to-Wear, Ready-to-Work
Diary of a Strike
The Eaton Drive
Through the Eye of the Needle
The Promise
This paper deals with the Needle Trades Industrial Union (NITU) organization drive in the garment industry of the cities of Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg. I argue that the relative success of this branch of the Workers Unity League (WUL) in unionizing the female workforce originates in part from the union's internal representation structure. Women's work was isolated from men's by the sharp gender division of work, which characterized the garme…
Hard Lessons
Angels of the Workplace
Ready-to-Wear, Ready-to-Work
Angels of the Workplace
Journal Article Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890–1940. By Mercedes Steedman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x, 333 pp. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-541308-3.) Get access Eileen Boris Eileen Boris University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue…
Making the Amalgamated
Journal Article Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899–1939. By Jo Ann E. Argersinger. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii, 229 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5989-1.) Get access Mercedes Steedman Mercedes Steedman Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, Septembe…
The Security State and the State of Civil Liberties
Steve Hewitt, Spying 101. The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2002) Gary Kinsman, Dieter K. Buse, and Mercedes Steedman, eds., Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies (Toronto: Between the Lines 2000) W. Wesley Pue, ed., Pepper In Our Eyes: The APEC Affair (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 2000
Organizing the Electronic Sweatshop
On Strike and On Film
Art as Activism
Popular theater has significant, although largely overlooked, potential as a tool for unions to raise members’ political consciousness and strengthen their relationship to the union movement. Activist theater validates workers’ own knowledge, builds workers’ solidarity and self-confidence, and fosters an activist culture. It can also raise gender consciousness within unions. It has particular value for unions attempting to organize precarious wor…
Angels of the Workplace
The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap and the Overtime Pay Exemption in Ontario
Employment Standards (es) legislation sets minimum terms and conditions of employment in areas such as wages, working time, vacations and leaves, and termination and severance. es legislation is designed to provide minimum workplace protections, particularly for those with little bargaining power in the labour market. In practice, however, es legislation includes ways in which legislated standards may be avoided, including through exemptions that…
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