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Gender and Leadership in Unions
Reflecting the increased attention to gender and women in the field of employment relations, there is now a growing international literature on women and trade unions. The interest in women as trade unionists arises partly from the fact that women comprise 40 percent of trade union membership in the USA and over 50 percent in the UK. Further, despite considerable overall union membership decline in both the UK and USA, more women than men are joining unions in both countries. Recognition of the importance of women to the survival and revival of trade union movements has in many cases produced an unprecedented commitment to equality and inclusion at the highest level. Yet the challenge is to ...
A Twist of Fate
Few novels have been written about American flyers during World War I. A Twist of Fate is a compelling book that tells the story of an American Cajun from Louisiana who goes to France after graduating from college and flies with a French squadron. He is shot down, but recovers. While recuperating, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful, aristocratic woman in a loveless marriage. He navigates the intrigue and propaganda attempts by Allied groups, with the advice and friendship of a talented American diplomat. He returns to the war and becomes a celebrated “Ace” and earns medals for bravery in combat. He is sent to America to do a bond tour, but returns to France as an American squadron leader. His love for the French woman leads to a strong and passionate relationships that helps him survive The Great War.
Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Work
Providing a comprehensive picture of diversity, ethnicity, and migration in the health sector this book analyses the key themes of career and career structures, social processes, segregation, racism and sexism at international, national and local levels.
The Realities and Futures of Work
What do we know about the current realities of work and its likely futures? What choices must we make and how will they affect those futures? Many books about the future of work start by talking about the latest technology, and focus on how technology is going to change the way we work. And there is no doubt that technology will have huge impacts. However, to really understand the direction in which work is going, and the impact that technology and other forces will have, we need to first understand where we are. This book covers topics ranging from the ‘mega-drivers of change’ at work, power, globalisation and financialisation, to management, workers, digitalisation, the gig economy, ge...
Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership
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.
Foucault, Governmentality, and Organization
This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-day practices at the Motorola plant in East Kilbride, UK. Using eyewitness accounts, the book describes how employees dealt with the increased freedom Motorola promoted amongst its employees, how employees adapted to managerial changes, specifically the elimination of large-scale management, and where the ‘managerless’ system came under strain. This book will be of essential reading for researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates interested in the areas of management studies, human resource management, and organizational studies, among others.
Minimum Wage Policy in Great Britain and the United States
Analyzing wage policies and the political ideas that underlie them, including the irony of an Iraq funding bill leading to a minimum wage increase, this book compares not only Federal but State minimum wage policies and those of Britain as well. Going beyond the debate on public expenditure programs, the author examines the future of the "welfare state"? not from a perspective of entitlement but of citizenship in a public polity.
Labour and Employment Regulation in Europe
Since the 'golden age' of industrial employment peaked around 1970, the weakening of organised labour has continued in Europe and elsewhere. This text studies the conditions and development of trade union behavior and organisation in the 21st century, aswell as addressing the successes and failures of the European Employment Strategy.
Management and Diversity
International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion examines the complex nature of equality, diversity and inclusion in the world of work through interdisciplinary, comparative and critical perspectives.
Gower Handbook of Discrimination at Work
Changing organisational culture is necessary to tackle the persistent forms of discrimination that exist in the workplace. The Gower Handbook of Discrimination at Work considers the current legal framework of discrimination law, it offers critical perspectives on the effectiveness of the law in the promotion of non-discrimination, and discusses the changes being proposed that will lead to a single equality act. The authors then look at ways to address discrimination. The Handbook will interest practitioners, such as HR professionals and managers involved in addressing equality at work, trade unionists, equality trainers, and academics concerned with researching or teaching in these areas.
