On the edge of equality?: Working women and the US labour movement

Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 232-256

  Cobble, Dorothy Sue ^a   Michal, Monica Bielski ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203165751-31     Document Type: Chapter

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