This paper considers the various ways in which unions respond to transnational restructuring in their longer-term planning and at different levels of action. To this extent, it avoids simply falling into a workplace-based view of mobilizing, or a national and state level view of union lobbying...

This article shows how engagement with the internet and aspects of the new economy/society require an appreciation of union difference and politics. It shows how union responses vary due to four factors: communication strategies, union identity, forms of internal democracy and a range of...

This e-book studies the impact of new types of market based management systems in Western European public sector industrial relations. It points to the different dimensions of public sector change in terms of industrial relations and outlines some of the contradictory outcomes and ongoing...