Organizing has become a central tenet of trade union renewal in countries as diverse as the
United States, the Netherlands, and the UK. This book is the most systematic effort to date to …

In what will be essential reading for all industrial relations scholars, Gill Kirton considers the
social construction of women's trade union participation in the context of male dominated …

This book presents an institutional ethnography of budgeting processes of commissioning
contracts within welfare, education, and health ministries as case studies. With the historical …

This article examines leaders, leadership, and union renewal with a focus on women's
leadership and organizing. First, it considers the links between union renewal and women's …

This article examines the importance of family, gender and place to the intergenerational
transmission of trade union membership. Using data from the British Household Panel …

In some ways we [US and UK women trade union leaders and activists] are similar; how we
started off in the workplace, different problems we encountered. So in many ways we are …

Women's Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film
and Television Industries Page 1 WOMEN’S ACTIVISM BEHIND THE SCREENS Trade Unions …

Increase in women workforce brought the problems of organization of women in trade
unions and their representation back into the agenda. In this process, hundreds of …

This article provides a detailed chronological account of the extent of overall change in
women's representation in UK unions' structures of democracy and in unions' adoption of …

This article asks what sustains women union leaders' long-term union participation given an
internal environment often hostile to women and an external context antagonistic to unions …