This article considers issues of workplace union strategy in a study of a National Health Service hospital trust in which the focus of the investigation is the 'employee voice' gains, or losses, arising from partnership and worker participation. The impact of government policy on local...

1. Social democracy and trade unions -- 2. Sweden : social democracy after the divorce? -- 3. Germany : the collapse of a model? -- 4. State, unions, and labourism in Britain -- 5. The persistence of French exceptionalism? -- 6. The 'European social model' : towards a transnational social...

This chapter reviews the ongoing processes of marketisation in secondary school teaching and its further embedment through commodification of teachers’ performance. We track developments through documentary evidence from Government statements and other agency reports and unstructured...