This book brings together research in gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability and the growing intersection between trade unions and social movements. It offers an authoritative basis for comparative analysis in eleven countries.

1. Sue Ledwith and Fiona Colgan Tackling Gender, Diversity and Trade Union Democracy: a World Wide Project 2. Linda Briskin The Equity Project in Canadian Unions: Confronting the Challenge of Restructuring and Globalization 3. Rianne Mahon Learning to Embrace the Differences Within: Class, Gender and Diversity in Sweden's Peak Trade Union Body, the LO 4. Mhinder Bhopal and Patricia Todd Trade Unions, Segmentation and Diversity: the Organising Dilemmas in Malaysia 5. Rohini Trade Unions and Women's Autonomy: Organizational Strategies of Women Workers in India 6. Bianca Beccalli and Guglielmo Meardi From Unintended to Undecided Feminism? Italian Labour's Changing and Singular Ambiguites 7. Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten Changing Gender Relations in German Trade Unions: from 'Workers Patriarchy' to Gender Democracy 8. Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith Gender, Diversity and Mobilization in UK Trade Unions 9. Geraldine Healy and Gill Kirton Professional and Highly Qualified Women in Two Contrasting Unions 10. Malehoko Tshoaedi Women in the Labour Movement: Perceptions of Gender Democracy in South African Trade Unions 11. Dorothy Sue Cobble and Monica Bielski On the Edge of Equality: Working Women and the US Labour Movement 12. Gerald Hunt Organized Labour and Sexual Diversity Union Activism in Canada 13. Suzanne Franzway Sexual Politics in (Australian) Labour Movements 14. Claire Williams Masculinities and Emotion Work in Trade Unions