Making Globalization Work for Women: The Role of Social Rights and Trade Union LeadershipValentine M. Moghadam, Suzanne Franzway, Mary Margaret Fonow Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women. 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. 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 |
Contents
1 Introduction and Overview | 1 |
Part I Women Work and SocialEconomic Rights Across the Globe | 23 |
2 Toward Economic Citizenship | 25 |
3 Promoting the Social Rights of Working Women | 47 |
4 Tunisia | 71 |
5 Gendered Economic Rights and Trade Unionism | 93 |
6 Can a Focus on Survival and Health as SocialEconomic Rights Help Some of the Worlds Most Imperiled Women in a Globalized World? | 123 |
Part II Reports From the Field | 157 |
10 The Role of Unions in the Promotion of Gender Equality in France | 201 |
Part III Where Next for Feminism and the Labor Movement | 211 |
11 Trade Unions Collective Agency and the Struggle for Womens Equallity | 213 |
12 Womens Leadership in the South African Labor Movement | 245 |
13 WomenOnly Unions and Women Union Leaders in Japan | 265 |
14 Demanding Their Rights | 289 |
15 Neer the Twain Shall Meet? | 309 |
About the Contributors | 325 |
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