Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ledwith, Sue; Hansen, Lise Lotte

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 and leadership in labor organizations, while comparing gender and cultural perspectives. Contributors to the volume draw on empirical research to identify key ideas, beliefs and experiences which are critical to achieving change, setting up resistance, and transforming the inertia of traditionalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136200038
• Artikelnr.: 38249932

Autorenporträt

Sue Ledwith works mainly in the field of gender and trade unions. Currently a Leverhulme Emeritus scholarship holder, she works with Global Labour University Masters programme graduate trade unionists, especially those in Brazil and South Africa. She is co-editor of Women in Organisations: challenging gender politics (1996) and Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives (2002/7, Routledge). Lise Lotte Hansen is a cultural sociologist, a Ph.D., and an associate professor in the Department of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University. She works in the broad field of gender and labour markets. At the present she is researching gender, diversity, democracy and solidarity politics in Danish trade unions.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Diverse Trade Union Leadership: Complexity, Contradictions, Continuity
and Change Lise Lotte Hansen and Sue Ledwith 2. Gendered Leadership in
Australian Unions in the Process of Strategic Renewal: Instrumental,
Transformative or Post-Heroic? Barbara Pocock and Karen Brown 3. Gender and
Union Leadership: A Force Field Analysis Michelle Kaminski and Jailza Pauly
4. Women Leaders Riding the Whirlwind: Leadership and Gender In/Equality in
the Danish Labour Movement Lise Lotte Hansen 5. Doing, Un-Doing and
Re-Doing Gendered Union Leadership Sue Ledwith 6. Flexible Production and
Flexible Women - The Story of Union Leader Alice Tuula Heiskanen and Riitta
Lavikka 7. Merit, Individualism and Solidarity: Revisiting the Democratic
Deficit in Union Women's Leadership Linda Briskin 8. Rethinking Organising
and Leadership: Lessons from Non-Traditional, Women-Centred, Labour
Campaigns in New York City Sally Alvarez and Pam Whitefield 9. Emerging
from 'Deep, Dark Forests' - Women Leaders as Learners in Eastern and
Western European Trade Unions Joanna Cain 10. Developing and Globalising
Women's Union Leadership via a Cross-National Exchange Programme Gill
Kirton, Geraldine Healy, Sally Alvarez, Mary Gatta, Risa Lieberwitz and
Heather Mckay 11. Union Revitalisation Through Gender Equality in the
German Service Sector Union Ver.Di Anja Kirsch 12. Breaking Through the
Union Glass Ceiling Iin France: Between Organisational Opportunities and
Individual Resources Cecille Guillaume and Sophie Pochic 13. Female Union
Leadership, Power, Dynamism and Organised Labour in Ghana Akua Britwum 14.
Still Facing Discrimination: Impediments to Women's Representation in
Belgian Trade Unions Saskia Ravesloot 15. Gendering Research, Researching
Gender Sue Ledwith and Lise Lotte Hansen Notes List of Contributors Index