Carola Frege is a Reader in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Associate Professor at the Department of Labor Studies, Rutgers University. Author of Social Partnership at Work (Routledge, 1999), she has published widely in academic journals and edited collections on comparative industrial relations, in particular on Western and Eastern Europe. She is an Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations.John Kelly is Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Birkbeck College. He has published numerous books on trade unions and industrial relations.

This book opens the way for a new phase of research and discussion among practitioners and scholars of industrial relations.

• 1. Why Revitalize? Labour's Urgent Mission in a Contested Global Economy ; 2. Conceptualizing Labour Union Revitalization ; 3. Union Strategies in Comparative Context ; 4. Organizing the Unorganized ; 5. Analyzing Social Partnership: A Tool of Union Revitalization? ; 6. Unions as Political Actors: A Recipe for Revitalization? ; 7. Can Structural Change be a Source of Union Revitalization? ; 8. The New Solidarity? Trade Unions and Coalition Building in Five Countries ; 9. International Trade Union Revitalization: The Role of National Approaches ; 10. Conclusions: Varieties of Unionsim

Carola Frege is a Reader in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Associate Professor at the Department of Labor Studies, Rutgers University. Author of Social Partnership at Work (Routledge, 1999), she has published widely in academic journals and edited collections on comparative industrial relations, in particular on Western and Eastern Europe. She is an Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations.John Kelly is Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Birkbeck College. He has published numerous books on trade unions and industrial relations.

This book opens the way for a new phase of research and discussion among practitioners and scholars of industrial relations.

• 1. Why Revitalize? Labour's Urgent Mission in a Contested Global Economy ; 2. Conceptualizing Labour Union Revitalization ; 3. Union Strategies in Comparative Context ; 4. Organizing the Unorganized ; 5. Analyzing Social Partnership: A Tool of Union Revitalization? ; 6. Unions as Political Actors: A Recipe for Revitalization? ; 7. Can Structural Change be a Source of Union Revitalization? ; 8. The New Solidarity? Trade Unions and Coalition Building in Five Countries ; 9. International Trade Union Revitalization: The Role of National Approaches ; 10. Conclusions: Varieties of Unionsim

Carola Frege is a Reader in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Associate Professor at the Department of Labor Studies, Rutgers University. Author of Social Partnership at Work (Routledge, 1999), she has published widely in academic journals and edited collections on comparative industrial relations, in particular on Western and Eastern Europe. She is an Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations.John Kelly is Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Birkbeck College. He has published numerous books on trade unions and industrial relations.

This book opens the way for a new phase of research and discussion among practitioners and scholars of industrial relations.

• 1. Why Revitalize? Labour's Urgent Mission in a Contested Global Economy ; 2. Conceptualizing Labour Union Revitalization ; 3. Union Strategies in Comparative Context ; 4. Organizing the Unorganized ; 5. Analyzing Social Partnership: A Tool of Union Revitalization? ; 6. Unions as Political Actors: A Recipe for Revitalization? ; 7. Can Structural Change be a Source of Union Revitalization? ; 8. The New Solidarity? Trade Unions and Coalition Building in Five Countries ; 9. International Trade Union Revitalization: The Role of National Approaches ; 10. Conclusions: Varieties of Unionsim