"Contemporary ways of working are not working, even for professionals and managers in what used to be considered "good" jobs. Companies are responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets by adopting management practices and staffing strategies that push workers to do more...

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...