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Article: Labouring for Rights: Unions and Sexual Diversity Across Nations. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
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- Labour/Le Travail
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Gerald Hunt, ed., Labouring for Rights: Unions and Sexual Diversity Across Nations (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1999)
THIS COLLECTION sets out a very ambitious goal: to "explore the motivations toward, impediments to, and outcomes of alliances between organized labour and sexual diversity activists." (5) Part of the series Queer Politics, Queer Theories, edited by Steve Phelan, Hunt's collection reaches beyond a single country, where such an exploration would be daunting enough, given the range and diversity of issues, activists, and unions typically encountered in each country. Instead, it provides a broadly comparative perspective on these alliances ...