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Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership.

Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of leadership in various pol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ledwith, Sue
Otros Autores: Hansen, Lise Lotte
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge research in employment relations.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Preface
  • A diverse trade union leadership: complexity, contradictions, continuity and change / Lise Lotte Hansen and Sue Ledwith
  • Gendered leadership in Australian unions in the process of strategic renewal : instrumental, transformative or post-heroic? / Barbara Pocock and Karen Brown
  • Gender and union leadership : a force field analysis / Michelle Kaminski and Jailza Pauly
  • Women leaders riding the whirlwind : leadership and gender in/equality in the Danish labour movement / Lise Lotte Hansen
  • Doing, un-doing and re-doing gendered union leadership / Sue Ledwith
  • Flexible production and flexible women : the story of union leader Alice / Tuula Heiskanen and Riitta Lavikka
  • Merit, individualism, and solidarity : revisiting the democratic deficit in union women's leadership / Linda Briskin
  • Rethinking organizing and leadership : lessons from non-traditional, women-centred, labour campaigns in New York City / Sally Alvarez and Pam Whitefield
  • Emerging from "deep, dark forests" : women leaders as learners in Eastern and Western European trade unions / Joanna Cain
  • 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
  • Union revitalization through gender equality in the German service sector union ver.di / Anja Kirsch
  • Breaking through the union glass ceiling iin france : between organizational opportunities and individual resources / Cecille Guillaume and Sophie Pochic
  • Female union leadership, power, dynamism and organised labour in Ghana / Akua Britwum
  • Still facing discrimination : impediments to women's representation in Belgian trade unions / Saskia Ravesloot
  • Gendering research, researching gender / Sue Ledwith and Lise Lotte Hansen
  • Notes
  • List of contributors
  • Index.