« The book presents the findings of a four-year study of the challenges facing trade unions and their responses in ten west European countries. The project inv

The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establis

Based on comparisons of long-term developments and focusing on transnational connections, this book shows that historically there have been many varieties of tr

This collection brings together perspectives from industrial relations, political economy, political theory, labour history, sociology, gender studies and regul

Western European countries, like all industrialised market economies, have been confronted since the early 1970s with a profoundly changing economic and social