Unions make differences to employee satisfaction that correspond to their effects on individual economic advantage. Panel data reveal how changes in economic circumstance and changes in job satisfaction are linked to changes in union coverage. When individuals move into a union covered job they...

Introduction to the papers / Michael White -- Flexibility or polarisation? / Eithne McLaughlin -- Is there an underclass? The lessons from America / John Macnicol -- Recent developments in the macroeconomics of the UK labour market / Paul Warren -- Justifying ð̀orkfare': the historical context...