ABSTRACT

The pressures of globalization and diversity are increasingly requiring organizations to rethink their priorities and methods. In this collection, leading researchers examine the debates and developments on gender, diversity and democracy in trade unions in eleven countries.
Offering an authoritative basis for comparative analysis, this book is essential reading for researchers, teachers, trade unionists and students of industrial relations and equal opportunities, along with all those concerned with ensuring that modern organizations reflect and represent the needs and concerns of a diverse workforce.

chapter 1|23 pages

Tackling gender, diversity and trade union democracy

A worldwide project?

chapter |4 pages

References

chapter 2|17 pages

The equity project in Canadian unions

Confronting the challenge of restructuring and globalisation

chapter |3 pages

Notes

chapter 3|25 pages

Sweden’s LO

Learning to embrace the differences within?

chapter 4|22 pages

Trade unions, segmentation and diversity

The organising dilemmas in Malaysia

part 5|1 pages

Trade unions and women’s autonomy

chapter |3 pages

Research methods

chapter 6|3 pages

From unintended to undecided feminism?

Italian labour’s changing and singular ambiguities

chapter 7|22 pages

Changing gender relations in German trade unions

From ‘Workers’ Patriarchy’ to gender democracy?

chapter |23 pages

Case studies: the GPMU and UNISON

part 9|2 pages

Professional and highly qualified women in two contrasting trade unions

part |1 pages

Conclusions

chapter |3 pages

Notes

part 10|1 pages

Women in the labour movement

chapter |9 pages

Methodology

chapter |17 pages

Role of women in the formation of unions

chapter 11|6 pages

On the edge of equality?

Working women and the US labour movement

chapter |19 pages

Women and wages

chapter |7 pages

The challenge of women and feminism