TY - JOUR
T1 - The feminization of Irish trade unions
T2 - Involvement, solidarity and the relevance of gender
AU - Turner, Thomas
AU - D’Art, Daryl
PY - 2003/8/1
Y1 - 2003/8/1
N2 - Trends in union membership between 1990 and 2000 indicate the increasing feminization of the Irish trade union movement in terms of membership. The historical experience in industrialised nations is for much of women's work to be relatively short-term and marginal to the main labour force. This, it has been suggested, has tended to discourage women workers from adopting a collectivist response to the issues of pay and conditions and so weakening their level of participation in union activities. However, the evidence from a survey of the membership in a general union revealed little difference in the attitudes of men and women in relation to levels of group solidarity, wage earner solidarity and union orientation. On the evidence of this paper there is no indication that the increasing feminization of the Irish trade union movement is having an adverse effect on union activism and solidarity.
AB - Trends in union membership between 1990 and 2000 indicate the increasing feminization of the Irish trade union movement in terms of membership. The historical experience in industrialised nations is for much of women's work to be relatively short-term and marginal to the main labour force. This, it has been suggested, has tended to discourage women workers from adopting a collectivist response to the issues of pay and conditions and so weakening their level of participation in union activities. However, the evidence from a survey of the membership in a general union revealed little difference in the attitudes of men and women in relation to levels of group solidarity, wage earner solidarity and union orientation. On the evidence of this paper there is no indication that the increasing feminization of the Irish trade union movement is having an adverse effect on union activism and solidarity.
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U2 - 10.1108/09649420310485078
DO - 10.1108/09649420310485078
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84986019108
SN - 0964-9425
VL - 18
SP - 228
EP - 235
JO - Women in Management Review
JF - Women in Management Review
IS - 5
ER -