Negotiating Gender Democracy: New Trade Union Agendas

by Fiona Colgan, Sue Ledwith

Questions about gender democracy are at the heart of this study of trade union change and revitalization. How can unions build solidarity when women and minority groups within their memberships are not adequately represented in leadership positions? How do unions respond to demands for voices from increasingly diverse constituencies? Strategies of challenge and change by women and social movement activists representing a range of class, ethnic, sexuality and disability perspectives are explored, drawing on research with major UK trade unions.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published November 29, 2005