Table of Contents

1: Lowell Turner: Why Revitalize? Labour's Urgent Mission in a Contested Global Economy
2: Martin Behrens, Kerstin Hamann, and Richard Hurd: Conceptualizing Labour Union Revitalization
3: Carola Frege and John Kelly: Union Strategies in Comparative Context
4: Edmund Heery and Lee Adler: Organizing the Unorganized
5: Michael Fichter and Ian Greer: Analyzing Social Partnership: A Tool of Union Revitalization?
6: Kerstin Hamann and John Kelly: Unions as Political Actors: A Recipe for Revitalization?
7: Martin Behrens, Richard Hurd, and Jeremy Waddington: Can Structural Change be a Source of Union Revitalization?
8: Carola Frege, Edmund Heery, and Lowell Turner: The New Solidarity? Trade Unions and Coalition Building in Five Countries
9: Nathan Lillie and Miguel Martinez Lucio: International Trade Union Revitalization: The Role of National Approaches
10: John Kelly and Carola Frege: Conclusions: Varieties of Unionsim

About the Author

Carola Frege is a Reader in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Associate Professor at the Department of Labor Studies, Rutgers University. Author of Social Partnership at Work (Routledge, 1999), she has published widely in academic journals and edited collections on comparative industrial relations, in particular on Western and Eastern Europe. She is an Editor of the British Journal of Industrial
Relations. John Kelly is Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Birkbeck College. He has published numerous books on trade unions and industrial relations.

Reviews

`This important book offers a refreshing comparative perspective on the process of union revitalization, analyzing labor movement efforts to reverse the decline in union density and influence in five advanced capitalist countries. Although duly attentive to the particularities and limits of each national context as well as to the global constraints on unionism in this neoliberal age, the authors nonetheless emphasize the range of strategic choices open to
labor movements and the reasons for their varied approaches and levels of success.'
Ruth Milkman, Director, UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations