Background
Acker, Joan Elise Robinson was born on March 18, 1924 in Springfield, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Harold D. Robinson and Frieda (Steinman) Ellsworth.
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Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class, and Pay Equity (Women In The Political Economy)
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"Doing Comparable Worth" is the first empirical study of the actual process of attempting to translate into reality the idea of equal pay for work of equal value. This political ethnography documents a large project undertaken by the state of Oregon to evaluate 35,000 jobs of state employees, identify gender-based pay inequities, and remedy these inequities. The book details both the technical and political processes, showing how the technical was always political, how management manipulated and unions resisted wage redistribution, and how initial defeat was turned into partial victory for pay equity by labor union women and women's movement activists. As a member of the legislative task force that was responsible for implementing the legislation requiring a pay equity study in Oregon, Joan Acker gives an insider's view of how job evaluation, job classification, and the formulation of an equity plan were carried out. She reveals many of the political and technical problems in doing comparable worth that are not evident to outsiders. She also places comparable worth within a feminist theoretical perspective. Author note: Joan Acker is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon and winner of the 1989 Jessie Bernard Prize of the American Sociologial Association for life achievement.
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Class Questions: Feminist Answers (Gender Lens Series)
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Class Questions: Feminist Answers examines feminist theories of class and intersectionality and proposes a theory of gendered and racialized class processes as deeply embedded in capitalist practices, both historically and today. Joan Acker argues that large work organizations are primary locations in which gendered and racialized class inequalities are created. As neoliberal market practices reorganize work, gendered and racialized class inequalities are both reorganized and increasing nationally and globally. This book will appeal to readers interested in a feminist discussion of class as a racialized and gendered process intimately tied to the capitalist economic system.
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Class Questions: Feminist Answers (Gender Lens Series) by Acker, Joan (2005) Paperback
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(Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class, and Pay Equity ) Author: Joan Acker Aug-1989
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Class Questions: Feminist Answers (Gender Lens Series) Paperback December 8, 2005
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Joan Elise Robinson Acker
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Bachelor, Hunter College, 1946. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, University Oregon, 1967.
Career
Medical social worker New York Hospital, New York City, 1948-1956. Instructor University California, Berkeley, 1956-1958. Director Center for the Sociological Study of Women, University Oregon, Eugene, 1973-1981, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University Oregon, Eugene, 1982-1986.
From assistant professor to professor University Oregon, 1966—1994. Research professor Swedish Center for Working Life, Stockholm, 1987-1989. Distinguished visiting professor Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, 1990.
Consultant Ontario Pay Equity Commission, Toronto, 1990, Equality Commission, Helsinki, Finland, 1988-1989, Institute for Social Science Research, Oslo, Norway, 1988-1993.
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Class Questions: Feminist Answers (Gender Lens Series)
(Class Questions: Feminist Answers examines feminist theor...)
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Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class, and Pay Equity (Women In The Political Economy)
("Doing Comparable Worth" is the first empirical study of ...)
- By Joan Acker Class Questions: Feminist Answers (Gender Lens Series) Paperback
- Class Questions: Feminist Answers (Gender Lens Series) by Acker, Joan (2005) Paperback
- (Class Questions: Feminist Answers) Author: Joan Acker published on (December, 2005)
- (Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class, and Pay Equity ) Author: Joan Acker Aug-1989
- Class Questions: Feminist Answers (Gender Lens Series) Paperback December 8, 2005
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Class Questions: Feminist Answers (Gender Lens Series)
Membership
Task force member Pay Equity, State of Oregon, Salem, 1983-1985. Chairperson Women's Studies Council, University Oregon, Eugene, 1979-1981. Board directors National Council for Research on Women, New York City, 1983-1986.
Member American Sociological Association (chair sex and gender section 1979-1980, council 1992-1995, Jessie Bernard award 1989, Career of Distinguished Scholarship award 1993), International Sociological Association, Pacific Sociological Association (vice president 1975), Sociologists for Women in Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Children: Michael, David, Steven.
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American