Otto Jacobi is a lecturer at the European Academy of Labor in Frankfurt. Bob Jessop is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lancaster. Hans Kastendiek was Professor of British and American Cultural Studies at the University of Chemnitz. Marino Regini is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan.

Review of the original edition of Trade Unions:‘The student…will find in Alan Flanders a sure and lucid guide. The author writes with authority and puts fairly the issues involved in the many unresolved problems of our time.’ Higher Educational Journal.

• Introduction: Corporatist and Liberal Responses to the Crisis of Postwar Capitalism Part 1: The Current Crisis: Cul de Sac or Crossroads? 1. The end of the Keynesian Consensus 2. Trade Unions, Industrial Relations and Structural Economic ‘Ruptures’ 3. Political Bargaining in Western Europe During the Economic Crisis of the 1980s Part 2: Great Britain: The Impasse Broken? 4. British Industrial Relations: The Limits of Corporatism 5. The Prospects for the Corporatisation of Monetarism in Britain 6. Conservative Industrial Relations Policy: towards Labour Exclusion? Part III: Italy: The Permanent Impasse? 7. The Trilateral Agreement of 1983: Social Pact or Political Truce? and Paolo Perulli 8. Collective and Political Bargaining 9. The Political System as a Problem for the Trade Unions, 1975 – 1983 and Part 4: West Germany: The Disconcerted Impasse? 10. Economic Development and Trade Union Collective Bargaining Policy Since the Middle of the 1970s 11. Labour Law and Industrial Relations 12. Institutional Strategies for Trade Union Participation: An Assessment of the Incoporation Thesis.

Otto Jacobi is a lecturer at the European Academy of Labor in Frankfurt. Bob Jessop is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lancaster. Hans Kastendiek was Professor of British and American Cultural Studies at the University of Chemnitz. Marino Regini is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan.

Review of the original edition of Trade Unions:‘The student…will find in Alan Flanders a sure and lucid guide. The author writes with authority and puts fairly the issues involved in the many unresolved problems of our time.’ Higher Educational Journal.

• Introduction: Corporatist and Liberal Responses to the Crisis of Postwar Capitalism Part 1: The Current Crisis: Cul de Sac or Crossroads? 1. The end of the Keynesian Consensus 2. Trade Unions, Industrial Relations and Structural Economic ‘Ruptures’ 3. Political Bargaining in Western Europe During the Economic Crisis of the 1980s Part 2: Great Britain: The Impasse Broken? 4. British Industrial Relations: The Limits of Corporatism 5. The Prospects for the Corporatisation of Monetarism in Britain 6. Conservative Industrial Relations Policy: towards Labour Exclusion? Part III: Italy: The Permanent Impasse? 7. The Trilateral Agreement of 1983: Social Pact or Political Truce? and Paolo Perulli 8. Collective and Political Bargaining 9. The Political System as a Problem for the Trade Unions, 1975 – 1983 and Part 4: West Germany: The Disconcerted Impasse? 10. Economic Development and Trade Union Collective Bargaining Policy Since the Middle of the 1970s 11. Labour Law and Industrial Relations 12. Institutional Strategies for Trade Union Participation: An Assessment of the Incoporation Thesis.

Otto Jacobi is a lecturer at the European Academy of Labor in Frankfurt. Bob Jessop is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lancaster. Hans Kastendiek was Professor of British and American Cultural Studies at the University of Chemnitz. Marino Regini is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan.

Review of the original edition of Trade Unions:‘The student…will find in Alan Flanders a sure and lucid guide. The author writes with authority and puts fairly the issues involved in the many unresolved problems of our time.’ Higher Educational Journal.

• Introduction: Corporatist and Liberal Responses to the Crisis of Postwar Capitalism Part 1: The Current Crisis: Cul de Sac or Crossroads? 1. The end of the Keynesian Consensus 2. Trade Unions, Industrial Relations and Structural Economic ‘Ruptures’ 3. Political Bargaining in Western Europe During the Economic Crisis of the 1980s Part 2: Great Britain: The Impasse Broken? 4. British Industrial Relations: The Limits of Corporatism 5. The Prospects for the Corporatisation of Monetarism in Britain 6. Conservative Industrial Relations Policy: towards Labour Exclusion? Part III: Italy: The Permanent Impasse? 7. The Trilateral Agreement of 1983: Social Pact or Political Truce? and Paolo Perulli 8. Collective and Political Bargaining 9. The Political System as a Problem for the Trade Unions, 1975 – 1983 and Part 4: West Germany: The Disconcerted Impasse? 10. Economic Development and Trade Union Collective Bargaining Policy Since the Middle of the 1970s 11. Labour Law and Industrial Relations 12. Institutional Strategies for Trade Union Participation: An Assessment of the Incoporation Thesis.