Organizing Women Office Workers: Dissatisfaction, Consciousness, and Action

'œRoberta Goldberg's Organizing Women Office Workers provides further evidence that women workers can and increasingly are organizing themselves. By examining the genesis and development of different levels of consciousness, Goldberg identifies the basis for collective action among working women. She demonstrates that while patriarchy and capitalism structure women's work experience, they also provide the potential for the rise of a militant working women's movement.... The heart of Goldberg's analysis, and perhaps the most significant aspect of her book, is her examination of the interaction between class and gender consciousness.... Based on her finding that a matrix of feminist and class consciousness co-exist, Goldberg supports her claim that gender mediates class consciousness and class action....important for everyone interested in the failure of, and potential for, a revolutionary working class movement.'' Review of Radical Political EconomicsRoberta Goldberg is the author of 'Organizing Women Office Workers: Dissatisfaction, Consciousness, and Action', published 1983 under ISBN 9780275909901 and ISBN 0275909905.