期刊名称:Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
电子版ISSN:1705-1436
出版年度:2004
卷号:4
出版社:York University
摘要:Alice Hanson Cook (1903-1998) devoted her life to helping working people, andespecially working women, on four continents. What she herself called her'patchwork career' included social work, adult education, labor organizing, atour of foreign service at the end of World War II, twenty years teaching inCornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and authoring numerousbooks and articles, including The Most Difficult Revolution: Women and TradeUnions (with Val Lorwin and Arlene Kaplan Daniels, 1992) and Women andTrade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries (with Lorwin and Daniels,1984). She was a pioneer in bringing attention to issues such as comparableworth, maternity leave, and pay equity, known for both her scholarly writingsand her activism on the experiences of working women around the world." Formore information about Cook, go to (www.ilr.cornell.edu/aliceCook100th)