Consistent with government policy in other sectors of the economy, employment arrangements in Britain's ports have recently been deregulated (1989) and the remaining public sector por ts privatized (1991 onwards), but a comparison with state policies in other European countries suggests that...

For trade unions, the central problematic of globalization is the growing disparity between the mobility of capital and labour. The ability of capital to operate on a trans-national basis is widely perceived to have precipitated a process of cost cutting as international companies seek to cut...