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Changing Corporate America from Inside Out: Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights

Author: Nicole Raeburn

Despite the backlash against lesbian and gay rights occurring in cities and states across the country, a growing number of corporations are actually expanding protections and benefits for their gay and lesbian employees. Why this should be, and why some corporations are increasingly open to inclusive policies while others are determinedly not, is what Nicole C. Raeburn seeks to explain in Changing Corporate America from Inside Out.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 with and without gay networks, intensive interviews with human resources executives and gay employee activists, as well as a number of 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. Nicole C. Raeburn is assistant professor and chair of sociology at the University of San Francisco.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : corporations as the new frontier for lesbian, gay, and bisexual rights	1
1	The rise of the corporate workplace movement	23
2	The slowdown in new corporate organizing	53
3	Building and benefiting from the movement	73
4	Winds of change outside corporate walls : external factors influence gay-inclusive policies	107
5	Corporate windows of opportunity : the impact of internal factors on gay-inclusive policies	157
6	Changing the corporation from inside out : the power of employee activism	189
	Conclusion : movement success, theoretical and practical	231
App	The birth of gay employee networks and the adoption of domestic partner benefits	269

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