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Civil Rights and Discrimination

Michigan Law Review

1991

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The Civil Rights Hydra, Neal Devins May 1991

The Civil Rights Hydra, Neal Devins

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Civil Rights Era by Hugh Davis Graham


Feminizing Unions: Challenging The Gendered Structure Of Wage Labor, Marion Crain Mar 1991

Feminizing Unions: Challenging The Gendered Structure Of Wage Labor, Marion Crain

Michigan Law Review

In this article, I argue that labor unions can be an effective, central tool in a feminist agenda targeting the gendered structure of wage labor. Collective action is the most powerful and expedient route to female empowerment; further, it is the only feasible means of transforming our deeply gendered market and family structure. Others have laid the groundwork by showing how existing individual-model challenges have been unable to accomplish such broad-based reform. I begin where they leave off.