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

• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.4
• Soggetto topico: Women labor union members; Women employees - Labor unions; Labor unions; Diversity in the workplace
• Altri autori: HansenLise Lotte <1962-> LedwithSue
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Gendering and diversifying trade union leadership
• ISBN: 1-136-20003-7; 0-203-08575-2; 1-283-86116-X; 1-136-20004-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786451303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Research in Employment Relations