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 Becdelievre 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 - Roland Erne and Joerg Nowak
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