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 resources. 

 

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Steffen Lehndorff, Heiner Dribbusch and Thorsten Schulten: European trade unions in a time of crises — an overview

Jean-Marie Pernot: France’s trade unions in the aftermath of the crisis

Holm-Detlev Köhler and José Pablo Calleja Jiménez: Spain: a peripheral economy and a vulnerable trade union movement

Salvo Leonardi: Trade unions and collective bargaining in Italy during the crisis

Markos Vogiatzoglou: Re-paving the path to hell? Greek trade unions amid crisis and austerity

László Neumann and András Tóth: Hungarian unions under political and economic pressure

Magdalena Bernaciak: Coming full circle? Contestation, social dialogue and trade union politics in Poland

Franz Astleithner and Jörg Flecker: From the golden age to the gilded cage? Austrian trade unions, social partnership and the crisis

Heiner Dribbusch, Steffen Lehndorff and Thorsten Schulten: Two worlds of unionism? German manufacturing and service unions since the Great Recession

Paul de Beer and Maarten Keune: Dutch unions in a time of crisis

Geneviève Coderre-LaPalme and Ian Greer: Dependence on a hostile state: UK trade unions before and after Brexit

Erik Bengtsson and Magnus Ryner: Why no wage solidarity writ large? Swedish trade unionism under conditions of European crisis

Torsten Müller and Hans-Wolfgang Platzer: The European trade union federations: profiles and power resources — changes and challenges in times of crisis

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