Changing corporate America from inside out [electronic resource] : lesbian and gay workplace rights / Nicole C. Raeburn.
By: Raeburn, Nicole C. (Nicole Christine).
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BookSeries: Social movements, protest, and contention: v. 20.Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004Description: xi, 334 p. ; 24 cm.Other title: Lesbian and gay workplace rights.Subject(s): Gays -- Employment -- United States | Gay rights -- United States | Corporations -- United States | Organizational change -- United States | Domestic partner benefits -- United States | Gay liberation movement -- United States | Industrial management -- Social aspects -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.5/3/0973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Based on the author's doctoral thesis, State University of Ohio, 2000.
Data gathered from Fortune 1000 companies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Corporations as the new frontier for lesbian, gay, and bisexual rights -- The rise of the corporate workplace -- The slowdown in new corporate organizing -- Building and benefiting from the movement -- Winds of change outside corporate walls: external factors influence gay-inclusive policies -- Corporate windows of opportunity: the impact of internal factors on gay-inclusive policies -- Changing the corporation from inside out: the power of employee activism -- Conclusion: movement success, theoretical and practical -- Appendix: The birth of gay employee networks and the adoption of domestic partner benefits.
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