Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - Components, characteristics and context

pp 9-10

1 - Union identity and appeal

pp 11-28

2 - Union interests and ideologies

pp 29-48

3 - Union resources: the power resources approach

pp 49-68

4 - Union forms: adaptation and inertia

pp 69-90

5 - Union governance: South Africa and its lessons

pp 91-108

6 - Union relations

pp 109-130

7 - Union terrains

pp 131-146

Part II - Space, power and periodization

pp 147-148

8 - The liberal capitalist starting point

pp 149-168

9 - The social democrat high point, 1945–79

pp 169-188

10 - The “Socialist” experiment

pp 189-208

11 - The neoliberal low point

pp 209-228

Part III - The practice of building presence and power

pp 229-230

12 - Unions and the agenda of joint regulation

pp 231-252

13 - From contesting managerial prerogative to producing workers' control

pp 253-276

14 - From sectionalism and sectionality to intersectionality

pp 277-294

15 - The rationality and limitations of labour union bureaucracy

pp 295-314

16 - Explaining union participation and citizenship: implications for union strategy

pp 315-336

17 - Commitment to, and activism within, labour unionism

pp 337-358

18 - Unions working with and learning from other social movements

pp 359-378

19 - Concentric circles of class struggle: from the workplace to the world

pp 379-400

20 - Unions and politics: why unions are not just the economic wing of the labour movement

pp 401-420

21 - Constantly outpaced and outgunned? Labour unionism in the platform economy

pp 421-436

22 - When may the interests of labour and capital align?

pp 437-456