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Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World
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ABSTRACT
Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World is the first book to provide readers with an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the impact of New Labour governments on employment relations and trade unions. This innovative text locates changes in industrial politics since the 1990s in the development of globalization and the worldwide emergence of neoliberalism. The advent of Tony Blair’s government in 1997 promised a new dawn for employment relations. In this rigorous but readable volume, a team of experienced and respected contributors explain in detail how the story has unfolded.
This book looks at all aspects of New Labour’s policies in relation to employment relations and trade unionism. The first half of Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World presents an overview of industrial politics, the evolution of New Labour and an anatomy of contemporary trade unionism. It discusses relations between the Labour Party and the unions and the response of trade unionists to political and economic change. The second part contains chapters on legislation, partnership, organizing, training, strikes and perspectives on Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Trade unions under New Labour
chapter 1|42 pages
A brief history of British trade unions and neoliberalism: From the earliest days to the birth of New Labour
chapter 2|35 pages
A brief history of British trade unions and neoliberalism in the age of New Labour
chapter 3|29 pages
An anatomy of British trade unionism since 1997: Strategies for revitalization
chapter 4|38 pages
An anatomy of British trade unionism since 1997: Organization, structure and factionalism
chapter 5|38 pages
Under stress but still enduring: The contentious alliance in the age of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
part |2 pages
Part II Issues