New moves towards equality New challenges

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A step closer to equality A survey of women and their trade unions

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Inching towards equality Extremely slowly

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Union Workers, Union Work: A Profile of Paid Union Officers in the United Kingdom

Twelve years ago, "Working for the Union" presented an analysis of paid trade union officers working for UK unions. This paper returns to the themes of this earlier study using a fresh survey of union officers carried out in 2002. It provides limited support for two of the principal findings of the earlier research: that union work is performed differently by officers with different demographic and attitudinal characteristics and that union management systems can be effective in encouraging officers to respond to a new bargaining and organizing agenda. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd/London School of Economics 2006.

The ‘living wage’, low pay and in work poverty: Rethinking the relationships

The ‘living wage’ is an idea with a long history in the UK currently enjoying a renaissance. This article explores possible reasons for its re-emergence as a policy demand, but argues that thinking of low pay primarily as ‘poverty pay’ caused by employers’ failure to pay a living wage raises practical and conceptual issues that are problematic. It examines to what extent recent attempts to resolve such issues in the UK and elsewhere have succeeded, and concludes by suggesting that alternative ways of analysing and addressing the two key issues associated with the living wage, low pay and in work poverty, are required