Four. Managers and Union Leaders

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-150
Keyword(s):  
Union Leaders

scholarly journals ‘Women take care and men take charge’: The case of leadership and gender in the Public and Commercial Services Union

2020 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2094368
Author(s):  
Julie Prowse ◽  
Peter Prowse ◽  
Robert Perrett
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Union Leader ◽  
The Public ◽  
Union Leadership ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Survey Responses

This article presents the findings of a case study that aimed to understand the specific leadership styles that are valued by women and men lay representatives in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and to determine the gendered implications for increasing women’s leadership and representation in trade unions. Survey responses from PCS lay representatives (reps) show the majority of women and men agreed that the leadership style they value, and that makes a good union leader, is post-heroic (communal) leadership. This approach is associated with leadership characteristics such as being helpful, sensitive and kind and are generally practised by women. This contrasts with male union leaders who are associated with a traditional, heroic (agentic) leadership style characterised by confidence, self-reliance and decisiveness. Although some differences exist that highlight gender issues, both women and men lay reps have positive attitudes towards increasing women’s representation and participation in union leadership.

scholarly journals What Did Unions Do in Nineteenth-Century Britain?

1988 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Boyer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Insurance Benefits ◽  
Insurance Policies ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
The Impact

The article examines the development of the insurance function of trade unions. It analyzes how such policies worked, and why union benefit packages differed across occupations. It also addresses the impact of insurance policies on union organization. Insurance benefits increased the ability of unions to attract and retain members. They did not, however, significantly increase the power of union leaders relative to employers or union rank and file.

scholarly journals Class, Caste, and Gender among Cashew Workers in the South Indian State of Kerala 1930–2000

2001 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Factory Workers ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
Indian State ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Depth Interviews

The main concern of this paper is the issue of women workers' identity and class consciousness. This investigation is principally based on in-depth interviews with three generations of female factory workers. Extremely unequal power relations between capital and labour is insufficient to explain the more pronounced exploitation of female workers over males. In spite of these women having the potential for collective power, their factory lives have been characterized by treatment in constant violation of labour laws. Low-caste female workers have gone through a process of effeminization which has acted to curb their class identity and limit their scope of action. In the process of caste and class emancipation, the question of gender has been neglected by trade union leaders and politicians. The radicalism of males is built upon women's maintaining of the families – a reality which strongly contradicts hegemonic gender discourses and confuses gender identities.

scholarly journals Out of balance? ‘Konesans’ and first world knowledges in Caribbean women’s studies

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 297-304
Author(s):  
Bill Maurer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Food Poisoning ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Caribbean Women ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
Howard University ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
First World

[First paragraph]We Paid Our Dues: Women Trade Union Leaders of the Caribbean. A. LYNN BOLLES. Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1996. xxxviii + 250 pp. (Paper US$21.95)Gender: A Caribbean Multi-Disciplinary Perspective. ELSA LEO-RHYNIE, BARBARA BAILEY & CHRISTINE BARROW (eds.). Kingston: Ian Randle, 1997. xix + 358 pp. (Paper n.p.)Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century. CONSUELO LOPEZ SPRINGFIELD (ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. xxi + 316 pp. (Cloth US$ 35.00, Paper US$ 17.95)Two weeks before I began writing this review essay, I had the misfortune to contract food poisoning while visiting New York. I was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village where I found myself under the capable care of a team of West Indian nurses. At the time, I didn't give this much thought; I was simply happy to be getting good care far from home. The day before I was released, my right arm swelled up from the intravenous drip that had been delivering fluids and antibiotics into my body. It was first noticed by one of the Jamaican nurses, who told me that the IV had "infiltrated" my arm and that, as a result, my "fluids were out of balance," and this was keeping me from getting well. She promptly pointed this out to another nurse, who took out the IV and stuck another one into my left arm.

scholarly journals “Del dicho al hecho hay un gran trecho”: Obstáculos para la expansión de la escolaridad media en Uruguay.

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
María Ester Mancebo ◽  
Julia Pérez Zorrilla
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
Party Members ◽  
The Right ◽  
Institutional Fragmentation

In 2008, the Uruguayan General Education Law was enacted, stipulating the right to education and extending compulsory education from nine to fourteen years. This article analyzes the obstacles to design and implement educational policies to improve secondary education attainment rates during the governments headed by the Frente Amplio party from 2005 on. Using a qualitative approach, we employed a triangulation method that includes document analysis (laws and institutional reports) and 49 semi-structured interviews conducted between 2011 and 2015; the interviews covered government authorities, legislators, bureaucrats, experts and union leaders. We identified three potential causes of this policy gridlock: the institutional fragmentation of the educational system; the ideological disagreement between educational authorities and party members; and the teacher’s union veto. The educational policy stalemate in secondary education is explained by these multiple factors and their interaction.

The effect of training for internet use among local trade union leaders

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Hertenstein ◽  
Margaret A. Chaplan
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Union Leaders

The making of women trade union leaders

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Ledwith ◽  
Fiona Colgan ◽  
Paul Joyce ◽  
Mike Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Union Leaders

The Union as It Was

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-113
Author(s):  
William B. Kurtz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Naturalized Citizens ◽  
The North ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
Fort Sumter ◽  
Irish Americans

When the Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter, Catholic northerners rallied to save the Union from its greatest threat. Some hoped that immigrant and Catholic bravery and sacrifice on the battlefield would forever end anti-Catholic nativism in America. As conservatives and Democrats, they also strongly resisted attempts to enlarge the purpose of the war, especially on the issue of emancipating southern slaves. Remembering the connections between antislavery politics and anti-Catholic nativism in the antebellum North, they feared Republicans’ attacks on slavery might be followed by assaults on their rights as naturalized citizens and Catholics. The most prominent pro-Union leaders in the North were the Irish Americans Archbishop John Hughes (1797–1864) of New York and the Bostonian Patrick Donahoe (1811–1901), owner of the widely published newspaper the Boston Pilot. Together these two men led Catholic conservatives’ fight to restore the Union as it was before the outbreak of war.

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