This paper has its origins in an on-going project labeled Employment Relations Matters. The title captures the double intention: to demonstrate the ways in which employment relations matters and to bring people up to date with the matters that the subject deals with. It is one of three in IRRU's...

This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe, opening the wayto a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how work helps shape new identities.

Intro -- Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction ANGELA PROCOLI -- PART I: Identity and the Experience of Work -- 1. The Hazards of Overemployment: What Do Chief Executives and Housewives Have in Common? SANDRA WALLMAN -- 2. Secret Enterprise:...