{"product_id":"european-trade-unions-in-the-21st-century-the-future-of-solidarity-and-workplace-democracy-9783030882846","title":"European Trade Unions in the 21st Century: The Future of Solidarity and Workplace Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrade unions in Europe face a range of cross-cutting challenges. This includes the near-universal contraction in union membership; the related decline of traditionally highly unionised blue-collar industries; and the rise of automation, microprocessing, and digitalisation, which can make it cheaper for employers to invest in machines than to pay humans to work. The breakdown of the standard contract of employment and increasing rates of precarious work have further transformed the world of work. Taken together, this makes any collectivist vision of society, and the notion of solidarity upon which trade unionism is built, difficult to sustain.\u003c\/p\u003eAll this raises tough questions for trade unionists, policy-makers, and researchers alike regarding the future of trade unions, the oldest and largest civil society movement in Europe. The contributions in this volume explore the prospects for union revival across a range of cases, including by focusing on the pursuit of legal remedies and on the opportunities associated with the network society to defend the interests of workers.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis interdisciplinary volume includes contributions that consider the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the EU level by researchers coming from a range of disciplines and backgrounds. The volume should especially appeal to researchers and practitioners working in the fields of political science, sociology, law, and business studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cp\u003eBarry Colfer, University of Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 : The renewal of trade unionism in France\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDominique Andolfatto, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté ; Dominique Labbé, Université de Grenoble-Alpes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Macron’s reform and trade union power in the field of health at work \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSylvie Contrepois. Centre de Recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris (CNRS)\u003c\/p\u003eChapter 3: A Primordial Attachment to the Nation? French and Irish Trade Unions in Past EU Referendum Debates \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarragh Golden, University College Dublin; Roland Erne, University College Dublin, Élodie Béthoux, École normale supérieure, Paris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The European Court of Justice’s role in enhancing trade unions’ power in Europe \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLorenzo Cecchetti, University of Bologna\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The « Gilets Jaunes » movement - Issues of leadership and purpose in fluid organizing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoann Bazin, EM Normandie \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarry Colfer, University of Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: New forms of union organising in the Czech Republic\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMartin Štefko, Charles University, Prague \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: European Trade Unions in the Age of Migration: the state of the art \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRolle Alho, University of Helsinki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Trade Union Participation and New Forms of Collective Action: Pension Reform in Spain as a case study \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEusebi Colàs-Neila, Univ. Pompeu Fabra (UPF)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Confronting a moral abyss: Unions and the role of law in the France Telecom case \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia López López, Univ. Pompeu Fabra (UPF)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Political participation and local, national and international assemblies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDario Cositore, Univ. Pompeu Fabra (UPF)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: The right to collective bargaining of economically dependent workers in the digital age \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePieter Pecinovsky, KU Leuven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Normalcy of Militancy: Trade Union Activism and Power for Collection Change 1971-1974 \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJordan Brown, University of St Andrews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Barry Colfer \u0026amp; Richard Hyman (LSE)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: Esther Lynch, Deputy Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516324634967,"sku":"9783030882846","price":104.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/european-trade-unions-in-the-21st-century-the-future-of-solidarity-and-workplace-democracy-9783030882846","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}