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

by Moghadam, Valentine M.; Franzway, Suzanne; Fonow, Mary Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781438439617
• ISBN10: 143843961X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-28
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Valentine M. Moghadam is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies and Director of Women's Studies at Purdue University. Her previous books include the award-winning Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks, which received the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on Women and Politics 2006. Suzanne Franzway is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies and Portfolio Leader for Research Education at the University of South Australia. Her previous books include (with Dianne Court and R.W. Connell) Staking a Claim: Feminism, Bureaucracy and the State and Sexual Politics and Greedy Institutions: Union Women, Commitments and Conflicts in Public and Private. Mary Margaret Fonow is Professor and Head of Faculty of Women and Gender Studies and Director of the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her previous books include (with Suzanne Franzway) Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor and Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
Glossary of Acronyms and Terms	p. xiii
Introduction and Overview: Globalization and Women's Social Rights	p. 1
Women, Work, and Social/Economic Rights Across the Globe
Toward Economic Citizenship: The Middle East and North Africa	p. 25
Promoting the Social Rights of Working Women: The Case of Palestinian Women in Israel	p. 47
Tunisia: Women's Economic Citizenship and Trade Union Participation	p. 71
Gendered Economic Rights and Trade Unionism: The Case of Argentina	p. 93
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	p. 123
Reports From the Field: Trade Union and Multilateral Perspectivesd
The ILO, Gender Equality, and Trade Unions	p. 159
Women's Rights and Leadership: A Central Trade Union Agenda	p. 169
Achieving Equality Through Quality: Public Services and the Role of Public-Sector Trade Unions	p. 191
The Role of Unions in the Promotion of Gender Equality in France	p. 201
Where Next For Feminism and the Labor Movement?
Trade Unions, Collective Agency, and the Struggle for Women's Equality: Expanding the Political Empowerment Measure	p. 213
Women's Leadership in the South African Labor Movement	p. 245
Women-Only Unions and Women Union Leaders in Japan	p. 265
Demanding Their Rights: LGBT Transnational Labor Activism	p. 289
Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet? Reflections on the Future of Feminism and Unionism	p. 309
About the Contributors	p. 325
Index	p. 329
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