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Overview
Despite the backlash against lesbian and gay rights occurring across the country, a growing number of corporations are expanding protections and benefits for their gay and lesbian employees. In Changing Corporate American from Inside Out, Nicole C. Raeburn seeks to explain why this should be, and why some corporations are open to inclusive policies while others are determinedly not. A long-overdue study of the workplace movement, Raeburn's analysis focuses on the mobilization of lesbian, gay, and bisexual employee networks over the past fifteen years to win domestic partner benefits in Fortune 1000 companies. Drawing on surveys of nearly one hundred corporations, intensive interviews with human resources executives and gay employee activists, as well as case studies, Raeburn reveals the impact of the larger social and political environment on corporations' openness to gay-inclusive policies, the effects of industry and corporate characteristics on companies' willingness to adopt such policies, and what strategies have been most effective in transforming corporate policies and practices to support equitable benefits for all workers.Book Details
Published
June 15, 2004
Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.
Pages
362
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780816639984