Teachers' work and teacher unions: the global context -- Transforming the school workforce in England: the road to remodelling -- Research methods: processes, issues and implications -- Setting the agenda: the emergence and significance of 'social partnership' at the national level -- Industrial...

Trade unions in nearly all developed countries are facing major difficulties in maintaining membership levels and political influence. The U.S. labour movement has been increasingly attracted to an organizing model of trade unionism and, in turn, this response has caught the imagination of some...