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Working 9 to 5 a women's movement, a labor union, and the iconic movie

What started with ten office workers in Boston started out sitting in a circle and sharing the problems they encountered on the job became, in a few short years, a nationwide movement that united people of diverse races, classes, and ages. They took on the corporate titans. They leafleted and filed...

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Main Author: Cassedy, Ellen (Author)
Other Authors: Fonda, Jane, 1937- (writer of foreward.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Nine to five (Motion picture) > Miscellanea.
Women > Employment.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Sex discrimination against women.
Secretaries.
Women clerks.
Working class women.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Jane Fonda
  • Prologue
  • Every morning
  • Vying for power
  • Start-up
  • "I'm not a feminist, but..."
  • A bill of rights for women office workers
  • Teetering for our rights
  • While he was wearing them
  • In our glory (part I) : "We think a lot of women..."
  • A union of women, by women, for women
  • Se-cra-ta-REES, unite!
  • In our glory (part II) : the wallpaper comes alive
  • Going national
  • Hollywood
  • Our union goes national
  • Looking back, looking ahead.

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