Addressed to working women in all kinds of jobs, this groundbreaking book tells how to recognize and deal with emotionally abusive employers and coworkers. Personal accounts woven throughout the text describe many different abusive workplace situations.
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Is it you? Are you really just too sensitive to harsh words on the job? Or is it abuse? The authors share personal experiences and walk you through defining the problem, developing a remedy and placing this type of abuse into the larger social context. The workbook format allows you to objectively view your situation and to take appropriate action. Stop feeling powerless; stop feeling as if there must be something wrong with you.
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What exactly is emotional abuse at work? After reading this book you can name it and take active steps to deal with it. The authors--Nicarthy ( Getting Free , LJ 8/82); Naomi Gottlieb, a social work professor; and Sandra Coffman, a psychologist--define this problem through vivid accounts of the experiences of women of all races, classes, and sexual orientations. An abuse of power from managers and co-workers includes name-calling, invasion of privacy, public humiliation, and harassment. Women who have excused, hidden, or accepted such abuse are asked to evaluate their work situation and themselves to discover why they tolerate abuse in the workplace and possibly at home. Ways to confront abuse include organizing co-workers, initiating personal note-taking for legal action, and informing personnel and higher-level managers. This book motivates and informs women of their rights and power in the workplace. Highly recommended.
- Demetria A. Harvin, New York
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Demetria A. Harvin, New York
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Excellent resource for reporting abuse in the workplace,
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As I am experiencing bullying from my supervisor in a medical clinic, this has been an excellent guide to understanding and pointing out subtle behaviors that are reportable to the EEOC. I also recommend this book as I teach nursing students and this is still an ongoing behavior in hospitals and clinics. Abuse still happens with doctors and nurses.
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I am a practicing attorney and handle human rights cases. I purchased this book to help me understand the subtle methods of sexual abuse in the workplace from the standpoint of women. I found the book to be instructional and of great assistance to help me to recognize such things as an ongoing "grooming" type of behavior by bosses who prey on subordinates for sexual favors; and the limited ability of women to even identify and deal with flattery and differentiate it from sexual advances.The book helps all who read it come to grips with what is called an hostile work environment.
Robert A. Shaines Author of "Command Influence" a book soon to be published and dealing with another hostile environment in the military workplace
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In one of his chronic outbursts, a restaurant owner tells a waitress: "Move it, you dumb bitch." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
naming emotional abuse, abusive person, assertive confrontation, illegitimate control, workplace abuse, challenging abuse, women bosses, abusive boss, shadow organization, global words, abusive people, offensive person, woman boss, systemic injustice, assertive action Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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naming emotional abuse, abusive person, assertive confrontation, illegitimate control, workplace abuse, challenging abuse, women bosses, abusive boss, shadow organization, global words, abusive people, offensive person, woman boss, systemic injustice, assertive action Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rarely Sometimes Often, United States, Other Checklist, Anita Hill, Supreme Court, Mary Ellen, Clarence Thomas, United Nations, Kimberley Abbott, Laura Pfandler, Margaret Johnson, Native Americans New!
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- Pink Collar Workers by Louise Kapp Howe on 6 pages
- Hard-Hatted Women: Stories of Struggle and Success in the Trades by Molly Martin on 5 pages
- Sexual Shakedown by Lin Farley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Alone in a Crowd: Women in the Trades Tell Their Stories (Women in the Political Economy) by Jean Reith Schroedel in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Getting Free: You Can End Abuse and Take Back Your Life (New Leaf) by Ginny NiCarthy in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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