Jane Holgate is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Leeds. She is the co-editor of Union Voices: Developing Organizing in the UK (Ithaca 2012) and has held a number of positions in the trade union movement as an NGA 'mother of chapel', Unison branch chair and regional council delegate, UCU caseworker and secretary of Hackney Trades Union Council. She has worked closely on research projects with trade unions, including the GMB, TGWU, CWU, Bectu, Usdaw and the Trades Union Congress.

• List of Abbreviations Series PrefaceAcknowledgements 1. Looking to the Past to Understand the Present 2. Let’s Talk about Social Power 3. Harnessing Power in the Late Nineteenth-Century–Early Twentieth-Century ‘Gig Economy’ 4. Understanding and Using Levers of Power in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century 5. Structural Change and the Weakening of the Power of Workers6. Union Responses to Decline and Loss of Power 7. Organising in Theory: Recruitment in Practice? 8. Leadership, Strategic Choice and Union Power in the Turn to Organising9. Winning Power is PossibleNotes Bibliography Index

'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker. By centring her thesis on power, this book contributes to our understanding of what strategies and mechanisms enable workers to stand a chance at achieving justice'