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Women, Power and Trade Union Government in the UK

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  • Geraldine Healy
  • Gill Kirton

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This paper addresses the under‐explored relationship between women’s structures and union democracy and argues that women’s structural progress is mediated by an enduring gendered oligarchy and an associated struggle to access power resources. It provides, first, an analysis over time of women’s structures in UK unions, and second, a case‐study analysis of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance (MSF) trade union. The analysis over time demonstrates women’s progress in achieving positional power, but conceals the complexity of the way different resources are used to constrain and enable women trade unionists.

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  • Geraldine Healy & Gill Kirton, 2000. "Women, Power and Trade Union Government in the UK," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 38(3), pages 343-360, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:brjirl:v:38:y:2000:i:3:p:343-360
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8543.00168
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    1. Geraldine Healy & Gill Kirton, 2013. "The Early Mobilization of Women Union Leaders — A Comparative Perspective," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 51(4), pages 709-732, December.
    2. Sue Ledwith & Janet Munakamwe, 2015. "Gender, union leadership and collective bargaining: Brazil and South Africa," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 26(3), pages 411-429, September.
    3. Janice R. Foley, 2003. "Mobilization and Change in a Trade Union Setting: Environment, Structures and Action," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 17(2), pages 247-268, June.
    4. Gill Kirton, 2015. "Progress Towards Gender Democracy in UK Unions 1987–2012," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 53(3), pages 484-507, September.
    5. Getinet Astatike Haile, 2017. "Union decline in Britain: does gender have anything to do with it?," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 64(1), pages 25-49, February.
    6. Julia Kubisa, 2016. "Gendered division of trade union protests? Strategies, activities and outcomes of union activity among miners and nurses in Poland," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 22(3), pages 331-345, August.
    7. Gill Kirton, 2006. "Alternative and parallel career paths for women: the case of trade union participation," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 20(1), pages 47-65, March.
    8. Getinet Astatike Haile, 2021. "Men, women and unions," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(3), pages 201-217, May.
    9. Simon Pek, 2019. "Rekindling Union Democracy Through the Use of Sortition," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 155(4), pages 1033-1051, April.
    10. Sophie Pochic & Cécile Guillaume, 2021. "Understanding women’s under representation in union leadership roles: the contribution of a ‘career’ methodology," Post-Print hal-03446856, HAL.
    11. Stefania Marino, 2015. "Trade unions, special structures and the inclusion of migrant workers: on the role of union democracy," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 29(5), pages 826-842, October.
    12. Trudy Bates, 2022. "Rethinking how we work with Acker's theory of gendered organizations: An abductive approach for feminist empirical research," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(4), pages 1041-1064, July.
    13. Deborah Dean, 2015. "Deviant typicality: gender equality issues in a trade union that should be different from others," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(1), pages 37-53, January.
    14. Adrien Thomas, 2017. "Conglomerate Unions and Transformations of Union Democracy," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 55(3), pages 648-671, September.
    15. Haile, Getinet Astatike, 2012. "Union Decline in Britain: Is Chauvinism Also to Blame?," IZA Discussion Papers 6536, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    16. Allan Kerr & Jeremy Waddington, 2014. "E-Communications: An Aspect of Union Renewal or Merely Doing Things Electronically?," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 52(4), pages 658-681, December.
    17. repec:ilo:ilowps:467434 is not listed on IDEAS

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