The Challenges to Trade Unions in Europe: Innovation or Adaptation.

Abstract

The challenges to trade unions in Europe - innovation or adaptation?, Peter Leisink, Jim Van Leemput and Jacques Vilrokx. Part 1 Trade unions on shifting grounds: trade unions in a post-representative society, Jacques Vilrokx changing union identities in Europe, Richard Hyman. Part 2 Rethinking solidarity: modernization, trade unions and solidarity, Rainer Zoll individualization and solidarity - the challenge of modernization, Ben Valkenburg trade unions - social movement or welfare apparatus?, Jens Lind. Part 3 New items on the agenda: the wavering innovation of trade union policy - the case of ecological and occupational issues, Peter Leisink training - a new item on the bargaining agenda, Helen Rainbird, and Catherine Vincent collectivism in a changing context - union joining and bargaining preferences among white-collar staff, Jeremy Waddington, and Colin Whiston. Part 4 Adapting to management challenges: strategic choice for unions in France and Britain - divergent institutions with converging options, Steve Jefferys facing the multinational challenge, Paul Marginson, Peter Armstrong, Paul Edwards, and John Purcell unions and the restructuring of the public secto in Portugal, Alan Stoleroff and Reinhard Naumann. Part 5 Adapting to political pressures: British trade unions' strategies in a hostile environment 1980-1993, Roger Undy, Pat Fosh, Rod Martin, Huw Morris, and Paul Smith the role of the state in shaping trade union policies, Frans Leijnse the European trade union confederation and the construction of European unionism, Janine Goetschy.