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III - The Waitress as Craft Unionist: Waitress Unionism: Rethinking Categories

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Sue Cobble, D. (1992). Waitress Unionism: Rethinking Categories. In Sue Cobble, D. Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century. University of Illinois Press, pp. 137-150

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At times, waitresses in the newly established, semi-industrial locals of the 1930s engaged in self-regulation and peer discipline, but usually they did so through informal means because their locals lacked the extensive web of by-laws and work rules governing employee behavior developed by the older craft locals. After a series of weekly meetings, Local 6 coffee-shop waitresses decided to punish any woman who was late repeatedly by giving her a back station. One justified her action for the union newspaper: “It is usually regarded as the function of the management to take disciplinary action,” she said, “but if we undertake to discipline ourselves we will be in a much better position when we want to ask for something.”26

—p.142 by Dorothy Sue Cobble 4 months, 4 weeks ago

At times, waitresses in the newly established, semi-industrial locals of the 1930s engaged in self-regulation and peer discipline, but usually they did so through informal means because their locals lacked the extensive web of by-laws and work rules governing employee behavior developed by the older craft locals. After a series of weekly meetings, Local 6 coffee-shop waitresses decided to punish any woman who was late repeatedly by giving her a back station. One justified her action for the union newspaper: “It is usually regarded as the function of the management to take disciplinary action,” she said, “but if we undertake to discipline ourselves we will be in a much better position when we want to ask for something.”26

—p.142 by Dorothy Sue Cobble 4 months, 4 weeks ago