| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Gillian Creese. Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944–1994. (The Canadian Social History Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. vii, 278. $21.95.

This book is a contribution to the growing body of feminist historical writing that seeks to explain in a specific historical context how jobs are socially defined to privilege white male workers. Gillian Creese focuses on white-collar men and women office workers at British Columbia Hydro from the organization of the Office Employees' Association (OEA) in 1944 to the crisis of downsizing and restructuring in the early 1990s. The union affiliated with the Office Employees' International Union (OEIU) in 1955 and was renamed the Office and Technical Employees' Union (OTEU) in 1964. Creese's study helps to broaden the scope of labor history beyond the study of blue-collar men and further illustrates how the process of gendering work is also racialized. . . .

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