Trade unions in the European Union face an increasingly hostile environment, conditioned by growing globalization and structural changes in the European economies. This book considers the responses unions have been developing.

This volume:
* explores the extent to which European Industrial Relations systems are converging
*explores what has been the unions' reaction to changes in the economic environment
* includes studies from key sectors: electronics, food manufacturing, banking and public administration
* compares trade unions in these sectors in five of Europes most important economies: Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy and Denmark

'...this book is not written in indigestible Euro-jargon and it is positively interesting.' - British Journal of Industrial Relations 2001