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Making Globalization Work for Women : The Role of Social Rights and Trade Union Leadership.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series, Praxis: Theory in Action SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (355 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438439624
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making Globalization Work for WomenLOC classification:
  • HQ1236 -- .M3427 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Making Globalization Work for Women -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Acronyms and Terms -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- Part I. Women, Work, and Social/Economic Rights Across the Globe -- 2. Toward Economic Citizenship -- 3. Promoting the Social Rights of Working Women -- 4. Tunisia -- 5. Gendered Economic Rights and Trade Unionism -- 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? -- Part II. Reports From the Field -- 7. The Ilo, Gender Equality, and Trade Unions -- 8. Women's Rights and Leadership -- 9. Achieving Equality through Quality -- 10. The Role of Unions in the Promotion of Gender Equality in France -- Part III. Where Next for Feminism and the Labor Movement -- 11. Trade Unions, Collective Agency, and the Struggle for Women's Equallity -- 12. Women's Leadership in the South African Labor Movement -- 13. Women-Only Unions and Women Union Leaders in Japan -- 14. Demanding Their Rights -- 15. Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet? -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women.
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Intro -- Making Globalization Work for Women -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Acronyms and Terms -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- Part I. Women, Work, and Social/Economic Rights Across the Globe -- 2. Toward Economic Citizenship -- 3. Promoting the Social Rights of Working Women -- 4. Tunisia -- 5. Gendered Economic Rights and Trade Unionism -- 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? -- Part II. Reports From the Field -- 7. The Ilo, Gender Equality, and Trade Unions -- 8. Women's Rights and Leadership -- 9. Achieving Equality through Quality -- 10. The Role of Unions in the Promotion of Gender Equality in France -- Part III. Where Next for Feminism and the Labor Movement -- 11. Trade Unions, Collective Agency, and the Struggle for Women's Equallity -- 12. Women's Leadership in the South African Labor Movement -- 13. Women-Only Unions and Women Union Leaders in Japan -- 14. Demanding Their Rights -- 15. Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet? -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women.

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