Much literature on European Works Councils (EWCs) is pessimistic, stressing their limited formal powers and the risks of isolation from broader mechanisms of worker solidarity and of 'capture' by management. This article questions such dismissive conclusions. EWCs must be studied as an element...

This paper considers the various ways in which unions respond to transnational restructuring in their longer-term planning and at different levels of action. To this extent, it avoids simply falling into a workplace-based view of mobilizing, or a national and state level view of union lobbying...

The article will address the issue of training and development in Spain. First, the general economic and labour market context will be outlined. Second, the public policy context of training and development and the institutions of regulation will be considered in terms of the way challenges have...

Books Reviewed: Mauro F. Guille'n, The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein and John Schmitt, The State of Working America Lowell Turner, Harry C. Katz and Richard W. Hurd (eds), Rekindling the...

Trade Unions and Management: Developing a Partnership Robert M. Carton, Spiro Press, 2003, 143 pp., L14.95 (paperback) The Meaning of Militancy? Postal Workers and Industrial Relations Gregor Gall, Ashgate, 2003, 364 pp., L55.00 (hardback) Studies in Labour Markets and Industrial Relations Mario...

The politics, institutions and '''market'' for partnership.Partnership working has become synonymous with the contemporary politicalproject of ''modernisation''. It has underpinned the ideology and rhetoric of theLabour Government and shaped its relations with the institutions of capitaland...

Books reviewed: International and Comparative Employment Relations, Chris Brewster The Privatisation Process in East-Central Europe. Evolutionary Processes of Czech Privatizations, Anne Mills Fighting for Partnership: Labour and Politics in Unified Germany, Tony Royle The Left's Dirty Job: The...

This article shows how engagement with the internet and aspects of the new economy/society require an appreciation of union difference and politics. It shows how union responses vary due to four factors: communication strategies, union identity, forms of internal democracy and a range of...