Feminizing Unions: Challenging the Gendered Structure of Wage Labor

Authors

Marion Crain, West Virginia University

Abstract

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.

Recommended Citation

Marion Crain, Feminizing Unions: Challenging the Gendered Structure of Wage Labor, 89 Mich. L. Rev. 1155 (1991).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol89/iss5/3