Strategic Unionism and Partnership

TONY HUZZARD is Research Fellow, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm, Sweden. His research activities have included organizational development and the quality of life in a regional health authority as well as studies of social partnership and European Works Councils. DENIS GREGORY teaches Labour Relations and Labour Economics at Ruskin College, Oxford. Over the past 30 years, he has supported a wide range of UK trade unions as a consultant and trainer. REGAN SCOTT is a freelance writer on Industrial Relations, formerly TGWU National Secretary for European Coordination,

• Seconds Away: Naming and Framing the Project; D.Gregory & T.Nilsson Boxing and Dancing: Trade Union Strategic Choices; T.Huzzard The Limits of the European Dance Floor: Hard Times for Strategic Choice, Partnership and Union Innovation; R.Scott Dancing in the Dark: UK Unions and Strategic Choice; D.Gregory Dancing Queen?: Partnership, Co-determination and Strategic Unionism in Sweden; T.Huzzard & T.Nilsson Tiptoe through the Tulips: The Uneasy Development of Strategic Unionism in Polder Country; M.Van Klaveren & W.Sprenger Where Now for the German Tango Partners?; M.Kuhlmann The Last Waltz: Are Italian Trade Unions Leaving the Dance Floor?; M.Baglioni & A.Marchetti Ireland: Shall we Dance?; K.O'Kelly Romania: Learning to Dance; A.Trif & K.Koch Private Dancer: Boxing and Dancing in the United States; S.Deutsch Dance, Dance, Wherever You May Be?: Partnership in Comparative Perspective; T.Huzzard Lessons and Futures; D.Gregory, T.Huzzard & R.Scott

'As all trade union activists will know - sometimes you have to dance and sometimes you have to box. In this new book about employment based partnerships, the authors have provided us with a valuable and revealing insight into the motivations and practices that lie behind some of the most interesting employment based partnerships that have been developed in recent years.' - Dave Prentis, General Secretary, UNISON 'The authors have considerable experience in the area of union strategy and industrial relations in researcher/practitioner partnerships. The insights that they draw from such experience, backed by recent case examples, are a major strength of the book and make it a valuable resource for practitioners in the labour market and students of industrial relations and human resource management.' - Wanja Lundby-Wedin, President, Swedish Trade Union Confederation 'an excellent edited collection' - Mark Stuart, Industrial Relations Journal 'All country chapters are well written and based upon a rich set of case studies.' - Kurt Vandaele, European Review of Labour and Research