Organizing women : gender equality policies in French and British trade unions / Cécile Guillaume ; translated by Katharine Throssell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guillaume, Cécile, author.

Contributor:

Throssell, Katharine, translator.

Series:

Understanding work and employment relations.

Policy Press scholarship online.

Understanding work and employment relations

Policy Press scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Syndiquées. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Women in the labor movement--France.

Women in the labor movement.

Women in the labor movement--Great Britain.

Women labor union members--France.

Women labor union members.

Women labor union members--Great Britain.

Labor unions--France.

Labor unions.

Labor unions--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This book explores the representation of women's interests in the world of work across four trade unions in France and the UK. Drawing on case studies, it unveils the social, organisational and political conditions that contribute to the reproduction of gender inequalities or, on the contrary, allow the promotion of equality.

Contents:

Front Cover

Organizing Women: Gender Equality Policies in French and British Trade Unions

Copyright information

Table of contents

List of Figure, Tables and Boxes

List of British Unions

List of French Unions

Series Editors' Preface

1 Introduction

Structure of the book

2 Unions' Representation of Women and Their Interests in the Workplace

The roots of women's underrepresentation within unions

Mechanisms of excluding women and undervaluing their work

Equality policy at the crossroads of democratic and instrumental concerns

Union organizations that reproduce inequalities

The progress of gender equality

Women at the table, women's issues on the table

Women as transformational leaders

The promises of 'self-organization'

The permanence of rank-and-file mobilizations

A twofold comparative study

3 The Gendered Making of Union Careers

Joining a trade union: the role of individual dispositions

A stable professional situation: the condition for union membership

Gill, a secretary who moved up

A slower membership process

Alice, doubly committed to the union and to the profession

Cécile, a union activist 'out of necessity'

Political socialization and activism

Jacqueline, active in politics and the union

Scarlett, unionism as a 'normal outcome' of an interest in politics.

Getting involved in the union: building legitimacy

A lack of candidates and the role of local leaders

Louise, a pioneer confronted with male hostility

Elizabeth, enduring twofold discrimination

Specialization and acceleration of union careers

Paul, a union career 'in the shadow of union rights'

Learning skills and techniques

Do you know why you were elected?

Isabelle, a 'serial' unionist

The constraints of union professionalization.

Maïwenn, refusing the 'privilege' of a normal career

Becoming a union leader: relying on the institution

Two parallel paths to union leadership in Great Britain

Maxine, top lay member

In France, a cumulative model

Chloé, an activist with limited time

Partisan resources and co-optation processes

Cheryl, overcoming obstacles in a male-dominated world

John, rank-and-file activist

Geneviève, a whirlwind passage on a controversial subject

Constraints and selectivity of managerial roles

Martine, a spectacular rise ultimately hindered by social background

Charlotte: a long career at the top of the organization

Exceptional women?

Laure, a feminine leader

Do you feel comfortable being seen as a feminist?

Conclusion

4 Legal Mobilizations by Unions to Promote Equal Pay in Great Britain

Putting equal pay on the agenda: repeated mobilizations by women

The growth of rank-and-file mobilizations

Limited use of the law in the 1970s

Equal value: a struggle by 'insider feminists'

The EOC's litigation strategy

The progressive influence of women in unions

Patricia, a women's officer in a male world

The glory days of 'municipal feminism'

Elizabeth, a pioneer of equal pay law

Resistance from employers: justified by 'the market'?

Harry, a progressive awareness of gender inequalities

When male unionists and lawyers join the fray

Male unionists ahead of their time?

Paul, a struggle for equal pay at the cost of a union career

David: a solitary struggle for equal pay

The intervention of 'no win no fee lawyers'

Sally, manager of an equal pay unit

5 Conclusion: Lessons for Future (Comparative) Research

Designing a longitudinal case study

Adopting an intersectional perspective

Thinking outside the box of industrial relations theory

Notes

References.

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Originally published as Syndiquées. Défendre les intérêts des femmes au travail © Presses de la Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Guillaume, Cécile Organizing Women

ISBN:

9781529213720

152921372X

9781529213737

1529213738

9781529213713

1529213711

OCLC:

1289372866