The worldwide banking system is at the heart of the greatest economic crisis for at least 70 years. The crisis has strongly affected a sector that had already experienced significant changes in the preceding 30 years. Structural changes in the world economy, caused by globalisation processes and...

Introduction / Catherine Casey [and others] -- The social roots of the democratic crisis of the EU and the role of trade unions / Francesco Garibaldo -- Euro-democratisation and its alternatives : an analytical framework for organised labour / Roland Erne -- Path dependency and research on...