Radical Unions in Europe and the Future of Collective Interest Representation

Heather Connolly is Senior Lecturer in the Department of HRM at Leicester Business School, De Montfort University.Lefteris Kretsos is Senior Lecturer of Employment Relations and HRM and an active member of the Workplace Employment Research Unit (WERU) at the University of Greenwich.Craig Phelan is Professor of Modern History at Kingston University London and editor of the journal Labor History.

• Contents: Craig Phelan: The Future of European Unions: Radical Prospects? – Martin Upchurch/Andy Mathers/Graham Taylor: Towards Radical Political Unionism? – Heather Connolly: Trade Union Radicalism in France: The Renewal of Radicalism in the Context of Crisis and Austerity? – Ralph Darlington: Britain: Striking Unionism With a Political Cutting Edge – Paul Stewart: The Independent Workers’ Union: Class, Nation and Oppositional Labour Movements in Ireland from 1900 to the Celtic Tiger – Carlos J. Fernández Rodríguez/Rafael Ibáñez Rojo/Miguel Martínez Lucio: Radical Trade Unionism in Spain: The Re-Invention and Re-Imagination of Autonomy and Democracy Within and Around the Union Movement During the Past Century – Elanor Colleoni/Stefania Marino/Manuela Galetto: Radical Unionism in Italy - Back to the Future: Fiom and Chainworkers – Lefteris Kretsos: The Wind of Austerity in the Sails of Radicalism: The Greek Example – Alan Stoleroff: Radical Trade Unionism in Portugal: Between Maximalist Vanguardism and Ongoing Radicalisation – Adam Mrozowicki/Piotr Antoniewicz: Radical Trade Unions in Poland: The Meanings and Mechanisms of Union Radicalisation in a Post-Socialist Capitalism – László Neumann: Hungarian Unions: Toward Assuming Political Roles.

«Radical Unions is the first major survey of different forms and expressions of union radicalism in the current crisis, however broadly defined its key term. Like any interesting book on a complex subject, it raises as many questions as it answers, and the editors are therefore to be congratulated for assembling a thought-provoking collection.»(John Kelly, International Journal of Employment Relations)