Sorry Carol. I confused you with Liz Boyd's request.
Stella
Professor Stella M Nkomo
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>>> Stella Nkomo 2015/11/12 09:01 AM >>>
Dear Carol: I am so glad to hear what you are teaching. I am not sure if they are in the second edition but one of the best books I am familiar with is one by Amott---Race and gender and the history of work in USA.
Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States by Teresa L. Amott, Julie A. Matthae.;
Another wonderful source on the history of race and its infusion into management is a book by Roediger--a labour historian entitled:
Roediger and Esch The production of difference: Race and management in US Labour History
I also attach two articles that I co-authored that speak to the history of race (less gender) in management and organizations that may be helpful.
Sincerely,
Stella
Professor Stella M Nkomo
Deputy Dean for Research and Post-Graduate Studies
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
University of Pretoria
Lynnwood Road
Pretoria 0002
South Africa
27 12 420 5439
Cell 082 416 6308
Fax 27 362 5194
>>> Carol Watson <
watson@RIDER.EDU> 2015/11/11 12:08 AM >>>
Hi Liz,
There's a great new book by two historians and labor studies faculty at Rutgers and a women's studies professor at Grinnell College that should help out a lot: "Feminism unfinished: A short history of American Women's Movements" by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry, Liveright Publishing Corp, Div of Norton & Co., New York, NY 20014.
Another helpful book is Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction" by Rosemarie Tong, Westview Press, 1989. The Introduction and Chapter 1 on Liberal Feminism are excellent.
These two books caused the scales to fall from my eyes about a lot of things. Because of them, I have a manuscript offering a critical feminist proposal for women's leadership development that is looking for a home. It is not being well accepted by mainline management journals. Anyone have a suggestion about where it might go? I'd be interested in doing a panel on this at AoM if there are others out there who are willing to take on feminism and postmodernism - topics that are quite unpopular with many management and leadership scholars.
Best,
Carol Watson
Professor Emeritus
Rider University
Lawrenceville, NJ
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Dr. Liz Boyd
<eboyd17@kennesaw.edu> wrote:
Hi all-
I teach a course called Gender and the Workplace.
At the beginning of the course I try to give the students a historical perspective on men and women at work. However, I have found it difficult to combat the typical stereotypes students hold regarding the 1950's stay-at-home wife and working husband, which as we all know is an inaccurate history even for the white, middle class, US perspective it represents.
I have had a great deal of difficulty finding resources that will help me effectively communicate to students that the history of work is SO much longer and broader than Leave it to Beaver would suggest. I would love any resources people might know of (absolutely anything- graphics, comics, videos, books, articles) helping to illustrate:
1) just how long the history of work actually is
2) any perspective outside the US
3) people not of the upper middle class
4) cultural and racial groups more diverse than the stereotypical 1950's family
(all of this, of course, in relation to the history of men and women at work)
Thank you!!
Liz
Dr. Liz Boyd, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management
Research Director, Women's Leadership Center
Kennesaw State University
MD 0404 560 Parliament Garden Way
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." -Stephen J. Gould