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Costello, Cynthia – 1984
Based on an analysis of oral history interviews, this paper examines the events and consciousness surrounding a 1979 strike initiated by 53 female office employees of the Wisconsin Education Association (WEA) Insurance Trust. Faced with sex-discriminatory working conditions, the women at the Trust responded by initiating a strike. For many of the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Employed Women, Feminism, Labor Conditions
