Fair Play or Fair Pay? Gender Relations, Class Consciousness, and Union Solidarity in the Canadian UE
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4736262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Guard (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Pages | 149 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25144038 |
| OpenAlex | W1494434734 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Women who were activists in the Canadian district of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) during the postwar and cold war era challenge the assumption that class consciousness is incompatible with female gender consciousness. Encouraged by the leadership's espoused commitment to gender equality, and secure in their strategic importance as a quarter of the UE's membership, women activists not only refused to accept second-class status within the union, but called, in the name of solidarity, for men's active support in the struggle for women's rights. Although their arguments for a gender-conscious analysis of class struggle failed to convince the UE's leadership, their struggle laid the foundation for the working-class feminism that later emerged within the union. Resumes Les femmes combattantes dans le district canadien du syndicat des electriciens, des techniciens de la radio et des machinistes unis d'Amerique (UE) pendant les periodes posterieures a la Seconde guerre mondiale ainsi qu'a la Guerre froide, ont defie la these soutenant que la conscience de classe est incompatible avec la conscience feminine. Encouragees par la confiance professee par les autorites concernant l'egalite des sexes et securisees par l'importance strategique du fait qu'elles formaient le quart des membres de l'association, les femmes combattantes ont non seulement refuse d'accepter le statut de classe secondaire a l'interieur du syndicat, mais elles ont invoque au nom de la solidarite, l'appui actif des hommes pour les droits de la femme. Meme si leurs arguments pour l'analyse de la conscience feminine dans la lutte des classes n'ont pas reussi a convaincre les autorites du syndicat concerne, leurs lutte a jete les bases du developpement du feminisme dans la classe ouvriere qui a emerge plus tard a l'interieur du syndicat
Class (philosophy · Class consciousness · Consciousness · Economics · Epistemology · Labour economics · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Canadian Identity and History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2018 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |