Flexible production and flexible women: The study of union leader Alice

Heiskanen, Tuula; Lavikka, Riitta (2012)
 
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Heiskanen, Tuula
Lavikka, Riitta
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Ledwith, Sue
Hansen, Lise-Lotte
Routledge
2012

Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership
117-137
Yhteiskunta- ja kulttuuritieteiden yksikkö - School of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Copyright 2012 From Gendering and Divesifying Trade Union Leadership by Ledwith & Hansen. Reproduced by permission of Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, a division of Informa plc.
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The chapter presents a story of Alice, a sewing machinist and shop steward in a clothing company in Finland. The story takes places in the period when the clothing industry in Finland was facing major adaptation pressures and moved to apply principles of flexible production. The chapter deals with how Alice constructs her role as a union leader. The flexibility challenges required a new type of union representative which Alice tried to implement. Pioneering finally became for Alice a lonely and emotionally strenuous struggle in her attempt to work for the ‘sisters’ and to try to save their jobs.
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