{"product_id":"dishing-it-out-dorothy-cobble-9780252061868","title":"Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e Back when SOS or Adam and Eve on a raft were things to order if you were hungry but a little short on time and money, nearly one-fourth of all waitresses belonged to unions. By the time their movement peaked in the 1940s and 1950s, the women had developed a distinctive form of working-class feminism, simultaneously pushing for equal rights and pay and affirming their need for special protections. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Dorothy Sue Cobble shows how sexual and racial segregation persisted in wait work, but she rejects the idea that this was caused by employers' actions or the exclusionary policies of male trade unionists. \u003ci\u003eDishing It Out\u003c\/i\u003e contends that the success of waitress unionism was due to several factors: waitresses, for the most part, had nontraditional family backgrounds, and most were primary wage-earners. Their close-knit occupational community and sex-separate union encouraged female assertiveness and a decidedly unromantic view of men and marriage. Cobble skillfully combines oral interviews and extensive archival records to show how waitresses adopted the basic tenets of male-dominated craft unions but rejected other aspects of male union culture. The result is a book that will expand our understanding of feminism and unionism by including the gender conscious perspectives of working women. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy Cobble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252061861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252061868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 5.88w x 1.16d","brand":"Dorothy Cobble","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913509077247,"sku":"9780252061868","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_43de2db9-0b78-4300-ba7e-cfc42d5fa9ba.jpg?v=1680620759","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dishing-it-out-dorothy-cobble-9780252061868","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}