The Employment Relations Act 1999 (ERA) has provided trade unions in the UK with new opportunities for achieving recognition. After a long history of anti-unionism in the offshore oil and gas industry, employers have voluntarily ceded recognition to Trades Union Congress (TUC)-affiliated trade...

Introduction : the Baltics and the political economy of austerity / Jeffrey Sommers and Charles Woolfson -- 1. Austerity, internal devaluation, and social (in)security in Latvia / Jeffrey Sommers -- 2. Stockholm syndrome in the Baltics: Latvia's neoliberal war against labor and industry /...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION Oil and the Contradictions of Development -- CHAPTER 1: Corporate Social Responsibility in the International Oil Industry -- CHAPTER 2: The Piper Alpha Disaster and Industrial Relations in Britain's Offshore Oil Industry...