Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994

The history of labor in Canada is most often understood to mean—and presented as—the history of blue-collar men. And it is a story of union solidarity to gain wages, rights, and the like from employers. Creese here examines in depth one white-collar office union, and shows how collective bargaining involves negotiating relations of gender, class and race.