TY - BOOK AU - Raeburn,Nicole C. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Changing corporate America from inside out: lesbian and gay workplace rights T2 - Social movements, protest, and contention AV - HD6285.5.U6 R34 2004eb U1 - 331.5/3/0973 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Gays KW - Employment KW - United States KW - Gay rights KW - Corporations KW - Organizational change KW - Domestic partner benefits KW - Gay liberation movement KW - Industrial management KW - Social aspects KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10151274 ER -