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.
Author(s): Fiona Colgan
Edition: 1
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 256
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 12
Preface......Page 15
Tackling gender, diversity and trade union democracy: a worldwide project?......Page 18
The equity project in Canadian unions: confronting the challenge of restructuring and globalisation......Page 45
Sweden's LO: learning to embrace the differences within?......Page 65
Trade unions, segmentation and diversity: the organising dilemmas in Malaysia......Page 90
Trade unions and women's autonomy: organisational strategies of women workers in India......Page 112
From unintended to undecided feminism? Italian labour's changing and singular ambiguities......Page 130
Changing gender relations in German trade unions: from 'Workers' Patriarchy' to gender democracy?......Page 149
Gender, diversity and mobilisation in UK trade unions......Page 171
Professional and highly qualified women in two contrasting trade unions......Page 203
Women in the labour movement: perceptions of gender democracy in South African trade unions......Page 222
On the edge of equality? Working women and the US labour movement......Page 249
Organised labour, sexual diversity and union activism in Canada......Page 274
Sexual politics in (Australian) labour movements......Page 292
Masculinities and emotion work in trade unions......Page 309
Index......Page 329
