Making Globalization Work for Women explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women in a global context. Looking at labor policies and interviews with people in unions and nongovernmental organizations, the essays diagnose the problems faced by women workers across the world and assess the progress that unions in various countries have made in responding to those problems. Some concerns addressed include the masculine culture of many unions and the challenges of female leadership within them, laissez-faire governance, and the limited success of organizations working on these issues globally. Making Globalization Work for Women brings together in a synthetic and fruitful conversation the work and ideas of feminists, unions, NGOs, and other human rights workers.
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Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women.
List of Figures and Tables Preface and Acknowledgments Glossary of Acronyms and Terms 1. Introduction and Overview: Globalization and Women’s Social Rights Mary Margaret Fonow, Suzanne Franzway, and Valentine M. Moghadam PART I. WOMEN, WORK, AND SOCIAL/ECONOMIC RIGHTS ACROSS THE GLOBE 2. Toward Economic Citizenship: The Middle East and North Africa Valentine M. Moghadam 3. Promoting the Social Rights of Working Women: The Case of Palestinian Women in Israel Michal Schwartz 4. Tunisia: Women’s Economic Citizenship and Trade Union Participation Hafidha Chékir and Khédija Arafoui 5. Gendered Economic Rights and Trade Unionism: The Case of Argentina Graciela di Marco 6. Can a Focus on Survival and Health as Social/Economic Rights Help Some of the World’s Most Imperiled Women in a Globalized World? Cases from Ecuador, Ukraine, and Laos Rae Lesser Blumberg and Andres Wilfrido Salazar-Paredes PART II. REPORTS FROM THE FIELD: TRADE UNION AND MULTILATERAL PERSPECTIVES 7. The ILO, Gender Equality, and Trade Unions Shauna Olney 8. Women’s Rights and Leadership: A Central Trade Union Agenda Jo Morris 9. Achieving Equality Through Quality: Public Services and the Role of Public-Sector Trade Unions Nora Wintour 10. The Role of Unions in the Promotion of Gender Equality in France Pascale Coton PART III. WHERE NEXT FOR FEMINISM AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT? 11. Trade Unions, Collective Agency, and the Struggle for Women’s Equality: Expanding the Political Empowerment Measure Linda Briskin 12. Women’s Leadership in the South African Labor Movement Neva Seidman Makgetla 13. Women-Only Unions and Women Union Leaders in Japan Kaye Broadbent 14. Demanding Their Rights: LGBT Transnational Labor Activism Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow 15. Ne’er the Twain Shall Meet? Reflections on the Future of Feminism and Unionism Jennifer Curtin About the Contributors Index
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"Making Globalization Work for Women is an illuminating, timely, and original collaboration among three prominent scholars that fills an important and missing niche in studies of transnational activism, global employment policy, and women's work." — Dorothy Sue Cobble, author of The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
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ISBN
9781438439600
Publisert
2011-11-28
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State University of New York Press
Vekt
472 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
352