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.

Jack Hayward Professor of Politics, Hull University

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;