Gender and leadership in trade unions [electronic resource] / by Gill Kirton and Geraldine Healy.

By: Kirton, GillContributor(s): Healy, Geraldine (Geraldine Mary)Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge research in employment relations ; 30.Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013. Description: xiv, 290 p. : illISBN: 9780203078402 (e-book : PDF)Subject(s): Women labor union members -- Great Britain | Women labor union members -- United States | Women labor leaders -- Great Britain | Women labor leaders -- United States | Labor unions -- Great Britain | Labor unions -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to access online Also available in print edition.

Contents:

1. introduction / Geraldine Healy and Gill Kirton -- 2. Gender, work and unionism in comparative context / Gill Kirton ... [et al.] -- 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.

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