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This 5 page paper discusses Julie White's book Sisters & Solidarity, the author's purpose in writing it, and whether or not she achieves her aims. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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is still on-going. This paper discusses Julie Whites book Sisters & Solidarity, the authors purpose in writing it, and whether or not she achieves her aims. Discussion In Sisters &
Solidarity, White writes of the systematic exploitation of women by their employers. She covers the period from the late 1800s to the 1990s, with specific attention to the matter
of womens participation in unions, a participation which has been hard won. The topics that White discusses in the book include "womens work"-the way in which classifying what is and
is not a "suitable" job for a woman automatically limits both her opportunities and her wages; the composition of the work force and the barriers that were erected to keep
women out; the way in which employers set out to exploit their workers and encourage factionalism; the unions; the exclusion of women and the exclusion of other workers by race.1
With regard to the union question, for which she is well known, White writes "[W]omen workers have always been in an unfair situation. In the late 1800s and early
1900s, most women workers were single. Employers would hire them as cheap labour at the lowest rates of pay. Women needed collective action to improve their conditions. But the jobs
where women most commonly worked were often the hardest to organize."2 Those jobs included such things as domestic service and sales jobs, positions that tended to isolate the women and
which were considered unskilled.3 Jobs such as these "do not directly produce a profit and thus there is a real incentive to keep the wages down."4 Something immediately comes
to mind here; the fact that in Canada at least, there was a definite distinction between "womens work" and "mens work," and the jobs that were considered suitable for women
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