Abstract
Often considered hostile or indifferent to the concerns of trade unions, Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’ in fact enjoyed a complex relationship with unions based on mutual reliance and suspicion. Far from pandering only to the needs of business, Blair’s government pursued a distinctive social-democratic agenda and gave unions a genuine, if limited, role in the design of this. The introductory chapter to the book sets out several alternative pathways for unions to exert influence over Labour governments and argues that one of these, ‘insider lobbying’ by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), was crucial in steering Blair’s free market agenda in a more collectivist direction.
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