Trade unions and global restructuring

Photo by Yanni Koutsomitis Following the 2008 financial crisis, the European Union adopted a new economic governance regime. As  Jamie ...

Forty years after Mrs Thatcher’s first election victory, the term ‘neoliberal’ remains the basic shorthand term for the new form of capit...

From the early 1980s onwards workers’ rights across Europe have been greatly cut back, especially with regards to collective bargaining ...

Large parts of the western working class now seem to gather around right-wing populists, demagogues and racists. They vote for reactionar...

Only a few months after the Labour Party’s defeat in national elections in May 2015, the socialist, left-wing Jeremy Corbyn was elected a...

The election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party so shortly after the defeat in the general elections of May 2015 came for man...

‘What we are for is equally important as what we are against’, declared Dexter Whitfield in his presentation ‘Capitalist dynamics reconf...

From August 2013 to June 2014, the trasnational labour project group came together in Oslo to work on the project Globalization and the p...

As a result of neo-liberal restructuring, the informalisation of work in the global economy has been intensified. While precarious forms ...

From 25 to 27 March 2015, the second meeting of the Futures Commission, hosted by the Chris Hani Institute , was held in Cape Town/Sout...

Only three years after closing the final salary pension scheme of USS for new members of staff in pre-1992 Higher Education (HE) insti...

On Sunday, 25 January the Greek people are voting for a new parliament. According to opinion polls, this time the left party Syriza may w...

From October 2011 to September 2014, we worked on the project Chinese labour in the global economy , supported by an ESRC research grant (R...

Belgium is going through a “hot autumn” with a series of protests and strikes. In this guest post Sacha Dierckx briefly introduces the c...

Public sector restructuring is generally justified with reference to the need to save money in view of large public debt resulting from the...

Despite the prolonged global economic crisis since 2007/2008, neo-liberal economic thought and practice continue to reign supreme. In h...

With the 2015 general elections on the horizon, there is again a sense of optimism amongst left, progressive forces in the UK in view of a ...

In this guest post, written on request, Jan Willem Goudriaan , Deputy General Secretary of the European Federation of Public Service Unio...

Against the background of the global and Eurozone financial crises as well as austerity sweeping across Europe, the pressure on privatisi...

Do trade unions matter in the Twenty-First Century? How are they responding to ongoing processes of neoliberal restructuring? In particul...