Challenging Inequality Issues: The Union Role

Geraldine Healy and Franklin Oikelome

Chapter 8 in Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Work, 2011, pp 162-191 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We have considered the private troubles and public issues as faced by highly qualified and low-paid workers in health care. Now we turn to those actors, networks and collectivities which may seek to challenge such inequalities and improve working experiences. In this chapter we focus on labour unions and in Chapter 9 on identity social networks. In many different ways these actors, networks and collectivities play a part in mediating or challenging inequalities in health care employment, in providing solidarity to collectivities and network members and/or to enriching their lives. Perhaps predictably, we also find evidence of rationalization, reproduction and compliance with inequalities.

Keywords: Trade Union; Union Member; Labour Union; Union Role; Union Membership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230321472_8

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