Autorentext

Barbara Pini is Professor at the John Curtin Institute for Public Policy, Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. She is author of several books, including Gender and Rurality (with L. Bryant, Routledge, forthcoming 2009) and Men, Masculinities, and Leadership in Agricultural Organizations (2007).

Paula McDonald is Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Queensland University of Technology.

Klappentext

This edited volume brings together empirical studies of gender and employment in the local government sector around the world and the ways in which gender plays a role in the recent restructuring of local government in industrialized democracies. Theoretically rich and informed by contemporary gender theory and critical management studies, this volume will appeal to those interested in the subject of gender and local government employment as well as gender and critical management scholars.

Inhalt
Introduction (Barbara Pini and Paula McDonald) 1. Leadership, Work, and Gendered Identity in a Local Government Organization (Jackie Ford, University of Leeds) 2. Gendered Impact of Intensification of Local Government Work (Bente Rusmussen, NTNU) 3. Worker in Local Government and Sexuality (Surya Monro, Leeds) 4. Restructuring and Gender in Local Government (Diana Worts, Bonnie Fox, and Peggy McDonough, University of Toronto) 5. Locating Gender Neutrality in Formal and Informal Aspects of Organizational Cultures in Local Government (Paivi Korvajarvi, University of Tampere, Finland) 6. Temporary Work in the Public Services (Hazel Conley, University of the West of England) 7. Local Government Reform and Women's Resistance in Poland (Alison Stenning and Jane Hardy, University of Newcastle) 8. Masculinities and Change in Local Government (Elin Kvande, NTNU) 9. The EEO and Managerialism in New Zealand Local Government (Ian Brooks, Toby Harfield, and Graham Fenwick, University of Canterbury, NZ) Conclusion (Barbara Pini and Paula McDonald)