Cracked

How Telephone Operators Took on Canada's Largest Corporation ... And Won

Joan M. Roberts (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2016
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3172-1 (ISBN)

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The campaign to unionize Bell Canada’s huge workforce of operators, most of them overworked and underpaid women, was a central event in Canada’s labour history. Joan Roberts tells the story of how determined campaigners won a major victory for working women, and established new standards for so-called “pink collar” jobs of the day.

2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award — Winner
2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated

The story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women’s workplace rights.

In the 1970s, Bell Canada was Canada’s largest corporation. It employed thousands of people, including a large number of women who worked as operators and endured very poor pay and working conditions. Joan Roberts, a former operator, tells the story of how she and a group of dedicated labour organizers helped to initiate a campaign to unionize Bell Canada’s operators.

From the point of view of the workers and the organizers, Roberts tells an important story in Canada’s labour history. The unionization of Bell Canada’s operators was a huge victory for Canada’s working women. The victory at Bell established new standards for women in other so-called “pink-collar” jobs.

Joan M. Roberts served as a union organizer for the phone operators at Bell Canada. She later worked as a development consultant for the Labour Council Development Foundation. Currently, she runs a training and consulting practice. She lives in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Chapter 1 Bell Canada: The Company
Chapter 2 The Occupation of Telephone Operator
Chapter 3 Co-opting Organized Resistance: Company Unionism in Action
Chapter 4 Setting the Stage
Chapter 5 The Pre-Campaign
Chapter 6 The CWC Card-Signing Campaign
Chapter 7 The CUC Defence
Chapter 8 The Wait
Chapter 9 The Second Card-Signing Campaign and the Vote
Chapter 10 Collective Bargaining and Early Job Action
Chapter 11 Strike
Chapter 12 Outside Support Makes the Difference
Chapter 13 After the Strike
Chapter 14 Wrapping Up and Thinking about the Future

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Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.2.2016
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10	1-4597-3172-7 / 1459731727
ISBN-13	978-1-4597-3172-1 / 9781459731721
Zustand	Neuware