"Just like that affirmative action had come to the Iron Range, and it set the stage for Lois Jenson and a handful of women desperate for a decent wage to walk into a place that had been forced by the federal government to hire them".

Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham

Class Action is a very well written book. For those that don't know..this is the book that inspired the movie "North Country".

It is all about the Sexual Harassment case brought by Mine Workers that changed Sexual Harassment Laws. In the movie, Charlize Theron plays the lead. It is quite a story and not a happy one. Both the book and the film are excellent.

I enjoyed this book greatly. It goes into way more detail then the movie did and sort of fills in many of the blanks.

It's a very sad book too. There was so much that happened. But it is so odd reading it in that it is Non Fiction and: warning to any feminist: I am sure the book might make you angry. The reason it will make you angry is because of the deplorable and disgusting treatment of the women. But it's an important book to read and educational as well.

The book contains much Legal speak and I will admit there are parts that are a bit wordy and seemingly very long winded but it is pretty easy to read overall. It's an important book as well and educational although aspects of it are not easy to read.

Anyone interested in the subject matter would most likely really want to read this. ( )

Wonderful, wonderful. I can't praise it enough or the courage it took the women, Lois Jenson in particular, to fight corporate misogyny. The movie it was made into, North Country, toned down the abuse and greatly shortened the battle this woman fought - 10 years. Who of us would have the strength to endure what she did for us all? ( )

Wow. This book is well worth reading, not for any great artistry of prose, but for the story it tells. This case, dramatized (and actually toned down, I hear) for the big screen as North Country is unbelievable. Unbelievable the crap these women went through in order to get a living wage, unbelievable the tactics brought to bear against them by the company's lawyers, and unbelievable, to me at least, that this case and all its legal implications were not resolved until 1998.

I think by 1998 I'd already heard a contemporary say that feminism was 'over' because it had done its work back in the 1970s. Hell, maybe I thought it myself. The fight for equity wasn't and isn't over, and this clearly written account (co-authored by a lawyer and a reporter) will make you grateful for the laws that protect everyone at work today in America, and the sacrifices that were made to get them. ( )

This was an excellent read. Being a true story about the U.S.'s first sexual harrassment class action, I expected it to be a dry chore to read, but the opposite proved true. The writers wrote it in the style of "creative nonfiction" weaving the kind of compelling narrative usually not found within nonfiction legal cases. Even though I was already aware of the overall outcome of the lawsuit, having been introduced to the story via the movie North Country, and had researched the case itself afterward, still the writing was engaging enough that it was difficult to pry myself away from the book once I started reading. ( )

The book is so much better than the movie. It gives you a much truer sense of what the women went through. Which is to be expected, of course, but I was surprised at the changes in the movie. ( )