| Description |
xv, 320 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Routledge research in employment relations ; 6 |
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Routledge research in employment relations ; 6
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1 Tackling gender, diversity and trade union -- democracy: a worldwide project? 1 -- SUE LEDWITH and FIONA COLGAN -- 2 The equity project in Canadian unions: confronting -- the challenge of restructuring and globalisation 28 -- LINDA BRISKIN -- 3 Sweden's LO: learning to embrace the differences -- within? 48 -- RIANNE MAHON -- 4 Trade unions, segmentation and diversity: the -- organising dilemmas in Malaysia 73 -- PATRICIA TODD and MHINDER BHOPAL -- 5 Trade unions and women's autonomy: -- organisational strategies of women workers in India 95 -- ROHINI HENSMAN -- 6 From unintended to undecided feminism? Italian -- labour's changing and singular ambiguities 113 -- BIANCA BECCALLI and GUGLIELMO MEARDI -- 7 Changing gender relations in German trade unions: -- from 'Workers' Patriarchy' to gender democracy? 132 -- SIGRID KOCH-BAUMGARTEN -- -- -- -- 8 Gender, diversity and mobilisation in UK trade -- unions 154 -- FIONA COLGAN and SUE LEDWITH -- 9 Professional and highly qualified women in two -- contrasting trade unions 186 -- GERALDINE HEALY and GILL KIRTON -- 10 Women in the labour movement: perceptions of -- gender democracy in South African trade unions 205 -- MALEHOKO TSHOAEDI -- 11 On the edge of equality? Working women and the -- US labour movement 232 -- DOROTHY SUE COBBLE and MONICA BIELSKI MICHAL -- 12 Organised labour, sexual diversity and union -- activism in Canada 257 -- GERALD HUNT -- 13 Sexual politics in (Australian) labour movements 275 -- SUZANNE FRANZWAY -- 14 Masculinities and emotion work in trade unions 292 -- CLAIRE WILLIAMS |
| Notes |
"This book is the first to bring together research on gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and disability and the growing intersection between trade unions and social movements. In this collection, leading researchers examine the debates and developments on gender, diversity and democracy in trade unions i eleven countries." -- p. [i] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women labor union members -- Case studies.
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Women employees -- Labor unions -- Case studies.
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Labor unions -- Case studies.
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Diversity in the workplace -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Case studies.
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| Author |
Ledwith, Sue.
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Colgan, Fiona.
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| LC no. |
2001058173 |
| ISBN |
0415230217 : |
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