Part 1 Policies and strategies: introduction - democratic participation - a challenge for democracy, Gerard Kester and Henri Pinaud; the role of social actors during recent developments in worker participation in ten countries of Western Europe, Henri Pinaud; participation and building social Europe, Janine Goetschy; guiding principles for a strategy for democratic participation, Gerard Kester; the decline, consolidation or growth of democratic participation?, Gerard Kester and Henri Pinaud. Part 2 Analysis of experience: participation to France, Henri Pinaud; trade unions and democratic participation in Germany, Gyorgy Szell; participation in Italian industrial relations, Fausta Guarriello; trade unions and worker participation in the Netherlands, Peter Leisink; trade unions and democratic participation in the United Kingdom, Michael Gold; from self management to co-operatives in the contours of worker participation in Malta over two decades, Edward Zammit; participation and co-determination in Sweden, Ake Sandberg; direct participation in Scandinavia from workers' rights to economic necessity, Thoralf Ulrik Qvale; participation and social Europe, Janine Goetschy; financial participation - a new challenge for trade unions, Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead; central and eastern Europe, Jaques Monat; beyond Europe, Gerard Kester. Part 3 Trade union - university co-operation on democratic participation: the PAROLES programme, Henri Pinaud; the African Worker's Participation Development Programme (APADEP), Gerard Kester; the worker's participation development centre (Malta), Edward Zammit; co-operation between trade unions and academic institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany, Gyorgy Szell; relations between trade unions and academic institutions in Italy; trade union-university relations in the Netherlands from committed co-operation to contract research, Peter Leisink; educational and research links between trade unions and universities in the United Kingdom, John Holford; trade unions and research in Sweden, Ake Sandberg.
