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Author Raeburn, Nicole C. (Nicole Christine)

Title Changing corporate America from inside out [electronic resource] : lesbian and gay workplace rights / Nicole C. Raeburn.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.

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Description xi, 334 p.
Series Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 20
Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 20.
Note Based on the author's doctoral thesis, State University of Ohio, 2000.
Data gathered from Fortune 1000 companies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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 States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Lesbian and gay workplace rights
ISBN 0816639981 (hc : alk. paper)
081663999X (pb : alk. paper)

 
    
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