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Understanding caring, organizing women: how framing a problem shapes union strategy

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  • Charlotte AB Yates

    (Full Professor of Political Science and Labour Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, yatesch@mcmaster.ca)

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Unions need more women members in order to grow. To organize and represent women, however, unions have to understand their different identities, issues and relationships at work. Using the concept of framing , in a case study of union organizing amongst child care workers, this article argues that unions struggle to define the scope and nature of a problem in ways that appeal to prospective women members and mobilize support for union-proposed solutions. The article explores how one union attempts to organize child care workers from diverse employment settings with divergent interests into a coalition with parents behind demands for a universal child care system.

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  • Charlotte AB Yates, 2010. "Understanding caring, organizing women: how framing a problem shapes union strategy," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 16(3), pages 399-410, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:16:y:2010:i:3:p:399-410
    DOI: 10.1177/1024258910373870
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    1. Pierre Lefebvre & Philip Merrigan, 2005. "The Québec's Experiment of $5 per Day per Child Childcare Policy and Mother's Labour Supply: Evidence Based on the Five Cycles of the NLSCY," CIRANO Project Reports 2005rp-21, CIRANO.
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    1. Gregor Murray, 2017. "Union renewal: what can we learn from three decades of research?," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 23(1), pages 9-29, February.

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