Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership [Hardcover]

Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of leadership in various political organizational forms, especially trade unions, but also including business and management approaches, leadership forms which arise from fields such as community, pedagogy, and the third sector.

This book analyzes and critiques concepts, expectations, and experiences of union leaders and leadership in labor organizations, while comparing gender and cultural perspectives. Contributors to the volume draw on empirical research to identify key ideas, beliefs and experiences which are critical to achieving change, setting up resistance, and transforming the inertia of traditionalism.

1. A Diverse Trade Union Leadership: Complexity, Contradictions, Continuity and Change Lise Lotte Hansen and Sue Ledwith  2. Gendered Leadership in Australian Unions in the Process of Strategic Renewal: Instrumental, Transformative or Post-Heroic? Barbara Pocock and Karen Brown  3. Gender and Union Leadership: A Force Field Analysis Michelle Kaminski and Jailza Pauly  4. Women Leaders Riding the Whirlwind: Leadership and Gender In/Equality in the Danish Labour Movement Lise Lotte Hansen  5. Doing, Un-Doing and Re-Doing Gendered Union Leadership Sue Ledwith  6. Flexible Production and Flexible Women  The Story of Union Leader Alice Tuula Heiskanen and Riitta Lavikka  7. Merit, Individualism and Solidarity: Revisiting the Democratic Deficit in Union Womens Leadership Linda Briskin  8. Rethinking Ol“Î