"Trade Unions examines the current state of the Irish Trade Union movement, the reasons for its decline and how it must re-imagine itself as a force capable of rolling back the frontiers of capital if it is to rally a new generation of workers to the cause of labour. The book argues that trade unionism must break into the new worlds of work by radically transforming contemporary trade union structures and culture which renders the movement largely alien to younger workers employed in the gig and digital economies"--