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Gender, Power and Trade Union Democracy

In: Trade Unions and their Members

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  • Teresa Rees

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The 1980s have been a decade of considerable change for trade unions in Britain. The decline in union membership since the peak of 1979 has been attributed to shifts in the industrial structure and the increase in the proportion of the workforce who are unemployed or who work part-time. Legislative changes have reduced and reshaped unions’ freedom to participate in industrial action. The locus of power, the collective bargaining system, has been seriously threatened for some unions which have been involved in protracted disputes. But the decade is characterized too by the growth of women’s participation in the unions, and by the extent to which the issue of gender inequality, both in the workplace and in the unions themselves, is receiving attention. It is now ten years since the TUC Charter of Action identified ten means of pursuing the goal of equality for women in unions. The limited progress in achieving those aims (Ellis, 1988; TUC 1986; Labour Research Department 1988; Trade Union Research Unit 1986) underlines, among other factors, the complex interrelationship between men and women’s positions in the union, the workplace and in the family.

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  • Teresa Rees, 1990. "Gender, Power and Trade Union Democracy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Patricia Fosh & Edmund Heery (ed.), Trade Unions and their Members, chapter 7, pages 177-205, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11931-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11931-8_7
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    2. 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.
    3. Dickens L., 1993. "Collective bargaining and the promotion of equality : the case of the United Kingdom," ILO Working Papers 992966393402676, International Labour Organization.

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