Introduction by Dorothy Sue Cobble Part I. Women's Inequalities and Public Policy 1. Increasing Class Disparities among Women and the Politics of Gender Equity by Leslie McCall 2. More than Raising the Floor: The Persistence of Gender Inequalities in the Low-Wage Labor Market by Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha Werschkul Part II. Unions and Sexual Politics 3. Two Worlds of Unionism: Women and the New Labor Movement by Ruth Milkman 4. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Challenge to American Labor by Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris 5. Sex Discrimination as Collective Harm by Marion Crain Part III.

Labor's Work and Family Agenda 6. Changing Work, Changing People: A Conversation with Union Organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center by Lydia Savage 7. Unions Fight for Work and Family Policies--Not for Women Only by Netsy Firestein and Nicola Dones Part IV. Organizing Women's Work 8. Working Women's Insurgent Consciousness by Karen Nussbaum 9. "We Were the Invisible Workforce": Unionizing Home Care by Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein 10. Expanding Labor's Vision: The Challenges of Workfare and Welfare Organizing by Vanessa Tait 11. Worker Centers and Immigrant Women by Janice Fine Part V.

Local-Global Connections 12. Female Immigrant Workers and the Law: Limits and Opportunities by Maria L. Ontiveros 13. Women Crossing Borders to Organize Katie Quan 14. Representing Informal Economy Workers: Emerging Global Strategies and Their Lessons for North American Unions by Leah F. Vosko References About the Contributors Index.