Trade Unions and Politics in Western Europe

This book analyses the politics and political issues associated with Trade Unions and Trade Unionism in Western Europe.

Chapter 1 Trade Union Movements and their Politico-Economic Environments: a Preliminary Framework, Jack Hayward; Chapter 2 Trade Union Ideology and Workers’ Conceptions of Class Inequality In France, Duncan Gallie; Chapter 3 European Trade Unions and the Economic Crisis: Perceptions and Strategies, Andrew Martin, George Ross; Chapter 4 Power and Dissent: The Trade Unions in the Federal Republic of Germany Re-Examined, Andrei S. Markovits, Christopher S. Allen; Chapter 5 Varieties of Trade Union Weakness: Organised Labour and Capital Formation in Britain, Federal Germany and Sweden, Colin Crouch; Chapter 6 Trade Union Strategies and Social Policy in Italy and Sweden, Marino Regini, Gösta Esping-Andersen; Chapter 7 International Trade Union Collaboration and the Prospects for European Industrial Relations, Emil J. Kirchner;

Jack Hayward Professor of Politics, Hull University