Increasing signs seem to indicate that, in the areas of both politics and thought, the age of neoliberal supremacy is approaching its end. An ideology based exclusively on the free play of the market is bound, ultimately, to lose its attraction. Growing inequality and social exclusion, with new...

Wage inequalities and low pay: the role of labour market institutions / Claudio Lucifora -- Employment inequalities / Andrew Glyn and Wiemer Salverda -- Low pay: a special affliction of women / Rita Asplund and Inga Persson -- Earnings mobility of the low paid / Peter Sloane and Ioannis...

This Handbook is an authoritative and invaluable reference tool, uniquely analysing the forces governing unionism, union behaviour and union impact from a variety of perspectives, both theoretical and empirical. The 14 chapters are written in an accessible style by acknowledged leading...