Just Wages: A Feminist Assessment of Pay Equity

Contents: Introduction: Putting feminism to work / Judy Fudge and Patricia McDermott -- Pay equity in Canada: Assessing the commitment to reducing the wage gap / Patricia McDermott -- The state of pay equity: Mediating gender and class through political parties in Ontario / Carl Cuneo -- Litigating our way to gender neutrality: Mission impossible? / Judy Fudge -- Making sense of pay equity: Issues for a feminist political practice / Sue Findlay -- Limited possibilities and possible limits for pay equity: Within and beyond the Ontario legislation / Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong -- The pay equity challenge to collective bargaining in Ontario / Patricia McDermott -- What counts as skill?: Reflections on pay equity / Jane Gaskell. Pay equity implementation: experimentation, negotiation, mediation, litigation, and aggravation / Lois Haignere -- Political power, technical disputes, and unequal pay: A federal case / Rosemary Warskett -- Job evaluation and managerial control: The politics of technique and the techniques of politics / Ronnie J. Steinberg -- Pay equity and the state's agenda / Debra J. Lewis -- Translating wage gains into social change: International lessons from implementating pay equity in Minnesota / Sara M. Evans and Barbara J. Nelson -- Pay equity in Sweden and other Nordic countries / Joan Acker -- Pay equity and economic restructuring: The polarization of policy? / Isabella Bakker -- Pay equity in a declining economy: The challenge ahead / Judy Fudge and Patricia McDermott.