The Challenges to Trade Unions in Europe – Innovation or Adaptation Leisink Van

The Challenges to Trade Unions in EuropeInnovation or Adaptation\nAuthor(s): Peter Leisink, Jim Van Leemput, Jacques Vilrokx\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781858982885, 978-1858982885\nSynopsis\nShould trade unions passively respond to turbulent changes in industrial relations or can they innovate and set their own agenda? In the face of technological, economic, political and cultural change, trade unions across Europe face a genuine threat to their past achievements and their future capacity to act and shape industrial [url] The Challenges to Trade Unions in Europe , a group of prominent authors examines the unions' strategic policies in seven European member states and at the European Union level, as well as their responses to the globalization of economic competition. Using theoretical and historical analysis as well as up-to-date empirical research, they examine the successes of trade u.