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Author:   Fiona Colgan ,  Sue Ledwith (Ruskin College, UK) ,  Sue (Oxford Brookes University)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   No.6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780415230216

ISBN 10:   0415230217
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   11 April 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Sue Ledwith and Fiona Colgan Tackling Gender, Diversity and Trade Union Democracy: a World Wide Project 2. Linda Briskin The Equity Project in Canadian Unions: Confronting the Challenge of Restructuring and Globalization 3. Rianne Mahon Learning to Embrace the Differences Within: Class, Gender and Diversity in Sweden's Peak Trade Union Body, the LO 4. Mhinder Bhopal and Patricia Todd Trade Unions, Segmentation and Diversity: the Organising Dilemmas in Malaysia 5. Rohini Trade Unions and Women's Autonomy: Organizational Strategies of Women Workers in India 6. Bianca Beccalli and Guglielmo Meardi From Unintended to Undecided Feminism? Italian Labour's Changing and Singular Ambiguites 7. Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten Changing Gender Relations in German Trade Unions: from 'Workers Patriarchy' to Gender Democracy 8. Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith Gender, Diversity and Mobilization in UK Trade Unions 9. Geraldine Healy and Gill Kirton Professional and Highly Qualified Women in Two Contrasting Unions 10. Malehoko Tshoaedi Women in the Labour Movement: Perceptions of Gender Democracy in South African Trade Unions 11. Dorothy Sue Cobble and Monica Bielski On the Edge of Equality: Working Women and the US Labour Movement 12. Gerald Hunt Organized Labour and Sexual Diversity Union Activism in Canada 13. Suzanne Franzway Sexual Politics in (Australian) Labour Movements 14. Claire Williams Masculinities and Emotion Work in Trade Unions

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'The selection of diverse case studies well approximates the challenge that confronts any project directed to the reform of trade union practice.' - Labour and Industry

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