Organising methods and member recruitment in Irish trade unions

Greek and Irish trade unions responses to youth unemployment

This paper sets to investigate the responses of the Greek and Irish social actors (trade unions, employers’ organizations, public agencies) to the youth unemployment which has severely risen in both countries after the outbreak of the economic crisis (OECD, 2009). The rationale behind the comparative perspective stems from our intention to investigate how the institutional structures and the in...

Trade unions and development

Trade Unions in Germany

Trade unions’ objectives and inflation

Important results recently achieved in games between trade unions and central banks rest on the assumption that workers’ organisations are interested, besides real wages and employment, in inflation per se. This hypothesis is crucial because: (i) the results are not robust to its removal; (ii) the justifications provided to support it are not without problems. The paper raises the issue, critic...

: Trade Unions and the State

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