Abstract
The union that generously opened itself to our research was the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA). It has just short of 36 000 members, of whom 61 per cent are women. The membership is mainly white-collar workers, comprising administrative, executive, professional, clerical and technical employees in the civil service (55 per cent) and the public service (45 per cent).1 The Alliance is the product of a series of amalgamations over the course of the twentieth century of smaller and more specific unions organising in the public sector. It took its present form in 1978.
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Cockburn, C. (2000). ‘Wide Awake to Women’: Gender and Other Disturbances in a Trade Union. In: Roulston, C., Davies, C. (eds) Gender, Democracy and Inclusion in Northern Ireland. Women’s Studies at York Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985397_5
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