This book analyses the development of trade unions in eleven countries (Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK) since the early 2000s. The individual chapters focus on unions' structural, organisational, institutional and discursive power... Find out more

This book deals with current issues of wages and collective bargaining in the context of the European crisis and the new system of European economic governance. It proposes a more expansive and solidaristic wage policy based on adequate minimum wages and strong multi-employer bargaining systems as... Find out more