British Trade Unions Facing the Future

Dinosaurs in Cyberspace? British Trade Unions and the Internet

Capital mobility, labour mobility, union immobility? Trade unions facing multinationals and migration in the EU

The paper addresses the issue of East-West union co-operation in Europe, through empirical evidence from case studies of western multinationals in the Czech Republic, and a review of union activities in the UK towards Polish migrants. The former show the limits of the EWC the institution which so far has been at the vanguard of Europeanisation, but has no collective bargaining role, and does no...

: Trade Unions and the State

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The Future of Unions

For some twenty years now, it has been common to refer to a crisis of trade unionism. What the future holds for labour movements – or indeed, whether they even have a future – seems increasingly uncertain. For many trade unionists as well as academics, unions in most countries appear as victims of external forces outside their control, and often also of their own conservative inertia. But union...

Trade unions and development