Building Movement Bridges The Coalition of Labor Union Women

Subjects:

• Women's Studies » Women in Business & Labor
• Sociology » Sociology (General)
• Sociology » Class Structure
• Economics » Labor Relations

Reviews:

• Readers interested in the relationship between the women's movement and the labor movement will appreciate this book....For students of social movement theory , labor history, and women's history, Building Movement Bridges raises crucial questions about the costs of "insider status" by focusing on issues of organizational development, change management, and advocacy politics. The book is especially helpful for younger readers and scholars who did not live through these movements. It is an interesting treatment of two movements at the center of America's current public discourse on social justice, women's rights, and democracy.
  —Industrial and Labor Relations Review July 2004
• Silke Roth makes a significant contribution to social movement theory by introducing the concept of "social movement interaction" and showing how interactions between movements can be analyzed at three levels...Roth's analysis of how CLUW employed various frame-alignment processes to make these issues compatible with the labor agenda is particularly interesting...Roth develops a typology of CLUW membership that captures its diversity and allows her to analyze similarities and differences among members with different backgrounds...Roth's analysis of how CLUW has influenced the labor movement is thorough and convincing... Building Movement Bridges will, I hope, encourage more scholars to study social movement interatction.
  —Contemorary Sociology May 2004
• Roth's discussion of CLUW's culture is intriguing...Readers interested in the relationship between the women's movement and the labor movement will appreciate this book...The book is especially helpful for younger readers and scholars who did not live through these movements. It is interesting treatment of two movements at the center of America's current public discourse on social justice, women's rights, and democracy.
  —Industrial and Labor Relations Review
• Roth's study moves social movement scholarship in useful directions....[R]oth links data on individual biographies, organizational trajectories, and intermovement interactions in a multilevel analysis and provides a detailed appendix of her participant observation, her interviews with experts, members, and leaders, and her survey of CLUW members that is a model for explicating the methodology of such mixed-method studies. This book will be useful for scholars and students in the areas of labor, feminism, and social movements.
  —American Journal of Sociology

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Sisterhood, Solidarity,and the Neglect of Working Women's Issues
• Developing Union Feminism
• Addressing and Achieving Diversity
• Organizational Structure and Collective Identity: CLUW as a Labor Organization
• Feminist Goals and Outcomes: CLUW as a Feminist Organization
• "Together We Will Make Unionists Feminists and Feminists Unionists": CLUW as a Bridging Organization
• Conclusion
• Bibliography