Introduction to Special Collection: Women’s agency at work

Janet Sayers, Jane Parker, Julie Douglas, Katherine Ravenswood and Rae Cooper

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2015, vol. 26, issue 3, 384-392

Abstract: This article introduces a Special Collection of four articles that highlight responses by working women collectively and individually to forces accelerated by the recent global crises. It draws out common themes from accounts of African women’s responses to harassment at work, of the links between union representation and pay equity in Brazil and South Africa and of Australian women’s quest for flexible and fair work/family arrangements. From these perspectives, the article sets out a five-point research agenda to help empower women’s collective and individual agency in response to working conditions shaped by global economic and social forces.

Keywords: Gender; industrial/employment relations policy; social movements; union organisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/1035304615600347

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