Part 1 Making sense of industrial relations: why industrial relations?; trade unions, control and resistance; pluralism, procedural consensus and collective bargaining; pressure, protest and struggle; theory in industrial relations. Part 2 Problems of contemporary trade unionism: the politics of workplace trade unionism; the sickness of British trade unionism; dualism and division in labour strategies; trade unionism, the workplace and the state; class struggle and the trade union movement.
