Format:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415887045
,
9781136154584
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Employment Relations Series
Content:
Gender and Leadership in Trade Unions explores and evaluates the similarities and differences in equality strategies pursued by unions in the US and the UK. It assesses the conditions experienced by women union members and how these impact on their leadership, both potential and actual. The discussion of women trade union leaders is situated more broadly within debates on governance, leadership and democracy within social justice activism
Note:
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 Contributors -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Kirton, Gill Gender and Leadership in Unions Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415887045
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
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