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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004

1 online resource (xi, 334 p.)

ISBN 0816639981 (hc : alk. paper)

ISBN 081663999X (pb : alk. paper)

Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 20

Based on the author’s doctoral thesis, State University of Ohio, 2000

Data gathered from Fortune 1000 companies

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Corporations as the new frontier for lesbian, gay, and bisexual rights -- The rise of the corporate workplace -- The slowdown in new corporate organizing -- Building and benefiting from the movement -- Winds of change outside corporate walls: external factors influence gay-inclusive policies -- Corporate windows of opportunity: the impact of internal factors on gay-inclusive policies -- Changing the corporation from inside out: the power of employee activism -- Conclusion: movement success, theoretical and practical -- Appendix: The birth of gay employee networks and the adoption of domestic partner benefits.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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