Changing corporate America from inside out lesbian and gay workplace rights / [electronic resource] :
Lesbian and gay workplace rights
Nicole C. Raeburn.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.
- xi, 334 p.
- Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 20 .
- Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 20. .
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.