Edited by Peter Leisink, Utrecht University School of Governance, the Netherlands, Jim Van Leemput, formerly Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Jacques Vilrokx, Professor of Labour Economics and Industrial Sociology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

• Contents: Foreword Part I: Trade Unions on Shifting Grounds Part II: Rethinking Solidarity Part III: New Items on the Agenda Part IV: Adapting to Management Challenges Part V: Adapting toPolitical Pressures Bibliography Index

'. . . a useful contribution to the field of comparative and international industrial relations. Its success is due to the involvement of a large number of authors who come from different countries and different disciplinary backgrounds, have both theoretical and empirical leanings, and have different methodological preferences. The diversity of their analyses - and their interest in going further then the descriptive question of the degree of innovation - produces a rich mosaic of current developments in union strategy.'

Edited by Peter Leisink, Utrecht University School of Governance, the Netherlands, Jim Van Leemput, formerly Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Jacques Vilrokx, Professor of Labour Economics and Industrial Sociology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

• Contents: Foreword Part I: Trade Unions on Shifting Grounds Part II: Rethinking Solidarity Part III: New Items on the Agenda Part IV: Adapting to Management Challenges Part V: Adapting toPolitical Pressures Bibliography Index

'. . . a useful contribution to the field of comparative and international industrial relations. Its success is due to the involvement of a large number of authors who come from different countries and different disciplinary backgrounds, have both theoretical and empirical leanings, and have different methodological preferences. The diversity of their analyses - and their interest in going further then the descriptive question of the degree of innovation - produces a rich mosaic of current developments in union strategy.'

Edited by Peter Leisink, Utrecht University School of Governance, the Netherlands, Jim Van Leemput, formerly Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Jacques Vilrokx, Professor of Labour Economics and Industrial Sociology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

• Contents: Foreword Part I: Trade Unions on Shifting Grounds Part II: Rethinking Solidarity Part III: New Items on the Agenda Part IV: Adapting to Management Challenges Part V: Adapting toPolitical Pressures Bibliography Index

'. . . a useful contribution to the field of comparative and international industrial relations. Its success is due to the involvement of a large number of authors who come from different countries and different disciplinary backgrounds, have both theoretical and empirical leanings, and have different methodological preferences. The diversity of their analyses - and their interest in going further then the descriptive question of the degree of innovation - produces a rich mosaic of current developments in union strategy.'