Gendering and diversifying trade union leadership
By: edited by Sue Ledwith and Lise Lotte Hansen
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge research in employment relations -- 29
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415884853
Subjects: Women labor union members; Women employees; Case studies; Labor unions; Diversity in the workplace
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of tables; title: List of figures; title: Preface; title: A diverse trade union leadership: complexity, contradictions, continuity and change / Lise Lotte Hansen and Sue Ledwith; title: Gendered leadership in Australian unions in the process of strategic renewal : instrumental, transformative or post-heroic? / Barbara Pocock and Karen Brown; title: Gender and union leadership : a force field analysis / Michelle Kaminski and Jailza Pauly; title: Women leaders riding the whirlwind : leadership and gender in/equality in the Danish labour movement / Lise Lotte Hansen; title: Doing, un-doing and re-doing gendered union leadership / Sue Ledwith; title: Flexible production and flexible women : the story of union leader Alice / Tuula Heiskanen and Riitta Lavikka; title: Merit, individualism, and solidarity : revisiting the democratic deficit in union women's leadership / Linda Briskin; title: Rethinking organizing and leadership : lessons from non-traditional, women-centred, labour campaigns in New York City / Sally Alvarez and Pam Whitefield; title: Emerging from "deep, dark forests" : women leaders as learners in Eastern and Western European trade unions / Joanna Cain; title: Developing and globalizing women's union leadership via a cross-national exchange programme / Gill Kirton, Geraldine Healy, Sally Alvarez, Mary Gatta, Risa Lieberwitz, and Heather Mckay; title: Union revitalization through gender equality in the German service sector union ver.di / Anja Kirsch; title: Breaking through the union glass ceiling iin france : between organizational opportunities and individual resources / Cecille Guillaume and Sophie Pochic; title: Female union leadership, power, dynamism and organised labour in Ghana / Akua Britwum; title: Still facing discrimination : impediments to women's representation in Belgian trade unions / Saskia Ravesloot; title: Gendering research, researching gender / Sue Ledwith and Lise Lotte Hansen; title: Notes; title: List of contributors; title: Index.