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Gender and Leadership in Trade Unions electronic resource

By: Healy, Geraldine | Kirton, GillMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge research in employment relationsPublication details: Hoboken Taylor and Francis 2013Description: 1 online resource (305 p.)ISBN: 9781136154584 (electronic bk.); 1136154582 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Women labor leaders - United States | Women labor leaders - Great Britain | Labor unions - Great Britain | Women labor union members - United States | Labor unions - United States | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor | Women labor union members - Great BritainDDC classification: 331.88082 Online access: Open e-book (Ruskin students only)
Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Gender, Work and Unionism in Comparative Context; 3 Gender, Union Democracy and Leadership; 4 Women Union Leaders: Influences, Routes, Barriers and Enablements; 5 Power, Empowerment and Women's Leadership Discourses; 6 Tales from the Top-Senior Women Union Leaders; 7 Women Working towards Union Transformation; 8 A Woman's Place-Women's Separate Organizing in Unions; 9 Developing Women Leaders in a Globalized Context; 10 Conclusions-Challenges from Inside and Outside the Union; Abbreviations List of ContributorsReferences; Index
Summary: Reflecting the increased attention to gender and women in the field of employment relations, there is now a growing international literature on women and trade unions. The interest in women as trade unionists arises partly from the fact that women comprise 40 percent of trade union membership in the USA and over 50 percent in the UK. Further, despite considerable overall union membership decline in both the UK and USA, more women than men are joining unions in both countries. Recognition of the importance of women to the survival and revival of trade union movements has in many cases produc.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Gender, Work and Unionism in Comparative Context; 3 Gender, Union Democracy and Leadership; 4 Women Union Leaders: Influences, Routes, Barriers and Enablements; 5 Power, Empowerment and Women's Leadership Discourses; 6 Tales from the Top-Senior Women Union Leaders; 7 Women Working towards Union Transformation; 8 A Woman's Place-Women's Separate Organizing in Unions; 9 Developing Women Leaders in a Globalized Context; 10 Conclusions-Challenges from Inside and Outside the Union; Abbreviations List of ContributorsReferences; Index

Reflecting the increased attention to gender and women in the field of employment relations, there is now a growing international literature on women and trade unions. The interest in women as trade unionists arises partly from the fact that women comprise 40 percent of trade union membership in the USA and over 50 percent in the UK. Further, despite considerable overall union membership decline in both the UK and USA, more women than men are joining unions in both countries. Recognition of the importance of women to the survival and revival of trade union movements has in many cases produc.

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