Gendering and diversifying trade union leadership / edited by Sue Ledwith and Lise Lotte Hansen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansen, Lise Lotte, 1962-

Ledwith, Sue.

Series:

Routledge Research in Employment Relations

Routledge research in employment relations ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women labor union members--Case studies.

Women labor union members.

Women employees--Labor unions--Case studies.

Women employees.

Labor unions--Case studies.

Labor unions.

Diversity in the workplace--Case studies.

Diversity in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 political organizational forms, especially trade unions, but also including business and management approaches, leadership forms which arise from fields such as community, pedagogy, and the third sector. This book analyzes and critiques concepts, expectations, and experiences of union leaders

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-20003-7

0-203-08575-2

1-283-86116-X

1-136-20004-5

9780203085752

OCLC:

820787646