ABSTRACT

This chapter examines how unions have responded to a rapidly changing environment in the electronics sector. As electronics has been more subject to technological change and market globalization than the other sectors of the study, one would expect it to be a fertile arena in which to observe a developed, if not radical, trade union response. One also might expect to be able to identify a greater degree of convergence than in other, less globalized sectors. The appropriateness of such expectations is examined here.