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Book SynopsisEquity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour explores the specific challenges put to outmoded attitudes and practices, charting the efforts made by organized labour in Canada towards addressing discrimination in the workplace and within unions themselves.
Table of ContentsPreface Union AbbreviationsIntroduction GERALD HUNTLooking Back: A Brief History of Everything JULIE WHITEBargaining against the Past: Fair Pay, Union Practice, and the Gender Pay Gap ANNE FORRESTUnion Response to Pay Equity: A Cautionary Tale JUDY HAIVENLabour's Collective Bargaining Record on Women's and Family Issues KAREN BENTHAMWe Are Family: Labour Responds to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Workers GERALD HUNT AND JONATHAN EATONBroadening the Labour Movement's Disability Agenda DAVID RAYSIDE AND FRASER VALENTINERacism and the Labour Movement TANIA DAS GUPTAEquity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour: A Comparative Perspective DAVID RAYSIDEAfterword LINDA BRISKINReferences Contributors
