Gender, diversity, and trade unions : international perspectives / / edited by Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: xv, 320 p
• Disciplina: 331.478
• Soggetto topico: Women labor union members; Women employees - Labor unions; Labor unions; Diversity in the workplace
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ColganFiona LedwithSue
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter 1 Tackling gender, diversity and trade union democracy -- A worldwide project? / Sue Ledwith -- chapter References -- chapter 2 The equity project in Canadian unions -- Confronting the challenge of restructuring and globalisation / Linda Briskin -- chapter Notes -- chapter 3 Sweden's LO -- Learning to embrace the differences within? / Rianne Mahon -- chapter 4 Trade unions, segmentation and diversity -- The organising dilemmas in Malaysia / Patricia Todd -- part 5 Trade unions and women's autonomy -- Organisational strategies of women workers in India / Rohini Hensman -- chapter Research methods -- chapter Fragmented unions, fragmented bargaining -- chapter The Chhattisgarh Mines Shramik Sangh (CMSS) and Mahila Mukti Morcha (MMM) -- chapter 6 From unintended to undecided feminism? -- Italian labour's changing and singular ambiguities / Bianca Beccalli -- chapter Women in the trade unions: an ambiguous relation -- chapter Widening equal opportunities to minority groups -- chapter 7 Changing gender relations in German trade unions -- From Workers Patriarchy to gender democracy? / Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten -- chapter 8 Gender, diversity and mobilisation in UK trade unions / Fiona Colgan -- chapter Case studies: the GPMU and UNISON -- part 9 Professional and highly quali?ed women in two contrasting trade unions / Geraldine Healy -- chapter Professional commitment and union orientation -- part Conclusions -- chapter Notes -- part 10 Women in the labour movement -- Perceptions of gender democracy in South African trade unions / Malehoko Tshoaedi -- chapter Methodology -- chapter Role of women in the formation of unions -- chapter 11 On the edge of equality? -- Working women and the US labour movement / Dorothy Sue Cobble -- chapter Women and wages -- chapter 12 Organised labour, sexual diversity and union activism in Canada / Gerald Hunt -- chapter 13 Sexual politics in (Australian) labour movements / Suzanne Franzway -- chapter Framing the strategies: sameness or difference -- chapter 14 Masculinities and emotion work in trade unions / Claire Williams -- chapter The challenge of women and feminism.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender, diversity, and trade unions
• ISBN: 0-415-23021-7; 1-134-58209-9; 1-280-15716-X; 0-203-16575-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455749603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in employment relations ; ; 6.