Author: Trades Union CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Report of Annual Trades Union Congress
Author: Trades Union CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Report of the ... TUC Women's Conference
Author: Women and the Labour Market
Author: Teresa ReesPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000634191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The labour market was undergoing considerable change. In particular, the advance of new technology and the development of positive action training for women had the potential to change patterns of gender segregation in the workplace. Originally published in 1992, Teresa Rees draws on a wide range of international studies of these issues and discusses them in the context of current theoretical and political debate. Based on work carried out by the author in Britain, Germany and Australia, Women and the Labour Market focuses on education and training policy, changes in labour supply, and changes in the nature and size of labour demand. It highlights the obstacles to equality at work, showing how the ideology of the family, the limitations of material reality and the exclusionary mechanisms operated by men have had an adverse impact upon women’s experiences of paid work. As well as underlining the power of patriarchy in shaping the labour market, Women and the Labour Market also discusses the development of policy measures which might have some effect on breaking down gender inequalities. An important contribution to debates at the time, the study puts forward practical suggestions for adjusting the system at the key points of recruitment, training and work organisation.
TUC Women's Committee Report to the ... TUC Women's Conference
Author: Trades Union Congress. Women's CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Making of Women Trade Unionists
Author: Gill KirtonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351886096
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
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 trade unions. Exploring the making and progress of women's trade union careers, this book locates the issues within the context of their experiences of three interlocking social institutions - the union, work and family. The book examines how and why women embark on trade union careers, the social processes which shape women's gender and union identities and the combined influences of union/work/family contexts on the trajectory of women's union careers. Additionally, the book offers a historical overview of the development of women's trade union education and separate organizing, with original analysis and historical data.
Special Report of the Director-General on the Application of the Declaration Concerning Action Against Apartheid in South Africa and Namibia
Author: International Labour OfficePublisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221070559
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Work, Women and the Labour Market
Author: Jackie WestPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000635619
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Originally published in 1982, Work, Women and the Labour Market presents through original articles a coherent overall picture of women’s employment in contemporary British capitalism. For the first time it brings together concrete studies which show graphically how women’s unequal position at work is shaped by the capital-labour relation and by women’s place as housewives and mothers. The book illuminates the differences and similarities in women’s and men’s experience in the labour market and as members of the working class. It is about how and why women come to be in jobs typically regarded as semi or unskilled, about the causes of low pay, and about women workers’ consciousness as workers and as women. It looks at the role of trade unions in relation to women and to sexual divisions, and at how class and gender relations are woven together in the production process. The nine closely researched contributions examine the development of women’s and men’s work in clothing and other manufacturing industries, clerical work in local government, microelectronics in the office, the position of Asian and West Indian women in the labour market, women’s role in the family and part-time work, and women’s involvement and influence in trade unions.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Author: Feminism and the Politics of Working Women
Author: Gillian ScottPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135360308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Based on extensive research, this text provides a critical investigation of the development of the Women's Co-operative Guild from the 1880s to World War II. Charting the rise and fall of an exceptional feminist political organization, the author assesses the political significance of the movement during the decades of its greatest influence and examines the causes and circumstances of its demise. Advancing a fresh perspective on working-class women's organizations, this book combines historical narrative, biography and political analysis.
Shaping Women's Work
Author: Juliet WebsterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317893484
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A new book offering a broad overview of the debates about technologies and gender relations at work in a range of occupational areas. Innovative in its approach it deals with gender relations in terms of the ways in which they influence the design and development of technologies, and how gender relations are themselves shaped by technologies. The book will draw heavily on the theoretical perspective looking at the ways in which sexual divisions of labour and gender relations in the workplace profoundly affect the direction and pace of technological change, and tracks the development of certain technologies showing how, through their evolution, they embody these social relations.