Joan M Roberts

Cracked

How Telephone Operators Took on Canada's Largest Corporation ... and Won

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Produktbeschreibung

The campaign to unionize Bell Canada's huge workforce of operators, most of them overworked and underpaid women, was a central event in Canada's labour history. Joan Roberts tells the story of how determined campaigners won a major victory for working women, and established new standards for so-called "pink collar" jobs of the day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781459731721
• ISBN-10: 1459731727
• Artikelnr.: 42372386

Autorenporträt

Joan M. Roberts served as a union organizer for the phone operators at Bell Canada. She later worked as a development consultant for the Labour Council Development Foundation. She has also served as a city councillor. Currently, she runs a training and consulting practice. She lives in Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents 
Acknowledgements 
Introduction 
Chapter 1 Bell Canada: The Company 
Chapter 2 The Occupation of Telephone Operator 
Chapter 3 Co-opting Organized Resistance: Company Unionism in Action 
Chapter 4 Setting the Stage 
Chapter 5 The Pre-Campaign 
Chapter 6 The CWC Card-Signing Campaign 
Chapter 7 The CUC Defence 
Chapter 8 The Wait 
Chapter 9 The Second Card-Signing Campaign and the Vote 
Chapter 10 Collective Bargaining and Early Job Action 
Chapter 11 Strike 
Chapter 12 Outside Support Makes the Difference 
Chapter 13 After the Strike 
Chapter 14 Wrapping Up and Thinking about the Future
Image Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Index