The Handbook of Labour Unions

Introduction - Gregor Gall

Part I Components, Characteristics and Context

1. Union identity and appeal - Lorenzo Frangi and Tinting Zhang

2. Union interests and ideologies - Ronaldo Munck

3. Union resources: the power-resources approach - Stefan Schmalz and Edward Webster

4. Union forms: adaptation and inertia - Chiara Benassi, Christian Ibsen and Maite Tapia

5. Union governance: South Africa and its lessons - Geoffrey Wood and Christine Bischoff

6. Union relations - Kurt Vandaele

7. Union terrains - Jamie Woodcock

Part II Space, Power and Periodization

8. The liberal capitalist starting point - Stefan Berger

9. The social democratic high point - Greg Patmore

10. The "socialist" experiment - Jeremy Morris

11. The neoliberal low point - Chris Howell

Part III The Practice of Building Presence and Power

12. Union and the agendas of joint-regulation - Miguel Martinez Lucio

13. From contesting the managerial prerogative to producing workers' control - Alan Tuckman

14. From sectionalism and sectionality to inter-sectionality - Jenny Rodriguez

15. The rationality and limitations of labour union bureaucracy - David Camfield

16. Unions as schools for lessons in democratic citizenship: implications for union strategy - Ed Snape

17. Commitment to, and activism within, labour unionism - Jack Fiorito, Andrew Keyes, Pauline De Becdelièvre and Zachary Russell

18. Working with and learning from other social movements - Heather Connolly

19. Concentric circles of class struggle: from the workplace to the world - Marissa Brookes

20. Unions and politics: why unions are not just the economic wing of the labour movement - Jörg Nowak and Roland Erne

21. Constantly outpaced and outgunned? Unions in the platform economy - Horen Voskeritsian

22. When may the interests of labour and capital align? Johanna MacNeil and Mark Bray

Conclusion - Gregor Gall