Fiona Colgan / Sue Ledwith (eds.)

Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions

International Perspectives
Herausgeber: Colgan, Fiona; Ledwith, Sue

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The pressures of globalization and diversity are increasingly requiring organizations to rethink their priorities and methods. In this collection, leading researchers examine the debates and developments on gender, diversity and democracy in trade unions in eleven countries. Offering an authoritative basis for comparative analysis, this book is essential reading for researchers, teachers, trade unionists and students of industrial relations and equal opportunities, along with all those concerned with ensuring that modern organizations reflect and represent the needs and concerns of a diverse workforce.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 677g
• ISBN-13: 9780415230216
• ISBN-10: 0415230217
• Artikelnr.: 21955795

Autorenporträt

Fiona Colgan, Sue Ledwith

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sue Ledwith and Fiona Colgan Tackling Gender, Diversity and Trade Union
Democracy: a World Wide Project 2. Linda Briskin The Equity Project in
Canadian Unions: Confronting the Challenge of Restructuring and
Globalization 3. Rianne Mahon Learning to Embrace the Differences Within:
Class, Gender and Diversity in Sweden's Peak Trade Union Body, the LO 4.
Mhinder Bhopal and Patricia Todd Trade Unions, Segmentation and Diversity:
the Organising Dilemmas in Malaysia 5. Rohini Trade Unions and Women's
Autonomy: Organizational Strategies of Women Workers in India 6. Bianca
Beccalli and Guglielmo Meardi From Unintended to Undecided Feminism?
Italian Labour's Changing and Singular Ambiguites 7. Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten
Changing Gender Relations in German Trade Unions: from 'Workers Patriarchy'
to Gender Democracy 8. Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith Gender, Diversity and
Mobilization in UK Trade Unions 9. Geraldine Healy and Gill Kirton
Professional and Highly Qualified Women in Two Contrasting Unions 10.
Malehoko Tshoaedi Women in the Labour Movement: Perceptions of Gender
Democracy in South African Trade Unions 11. Dorothy Sue Cobble and Monica
Bielski On the Edge of Equality: Working Women and the US Labour Movement
12. Gerald Hunt Organized Labour and Sexual Diversity Union Activism in
Canada 13. Suzanne Franzway Sexual Politics in (Australian) Labour
Movements 14. Claire Williams Masculinities and Emotion Work in Trade
Unions