Gender and leadership in trade unions / by Gill Kirton and Geraldine Healy.

Reflecting the increased attention to gender and women in the field of employment relations, there is now a growing international literature on women and trade unions. The interest in women as trade unionists arises partly from the fact that women comprise 40 percent of trade union membership in the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Kirton, Gill
Other Authors: Healy, Geraldine (Geraldine Mary)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge research in employment relations ; 30.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. introduction / Geraldine Healy and Gill Kirton
  • 2. Gender, work and unionism in comparative context / Gill Kirton [and others]
  • 3. Gender, union democracy and leadership / Gill Kirton and Geraldine Healy
  • 4. Women union leaders : influences, routes, barriers and enablements / Geraldine Healy and Risa Lieberwitz
  • 5. Power, empowerment and women's leadership discourses / Gill Kirton and Risa Lieberwitz
  • 6. Tales from the top : senior women union leaders / Sally Alvarez, Risa Lieberwitz and Gill Kirton
  • 7. Women working towards union transformation / Geraldine Healy and Mary Gatta
  • 8. A woman's place : women's separate organizing in unions / Heather McKay and Gill Kirton
  • 9. Developing women leaders in a globalized context / Gill Kirton and Mary Gatta
  • 10. Conclusions : challenges from inside and outside the union / Geraldine Healy and Gill Kirton.