Labour History symposium: Roland Erne, European unions

In this erudite and cautiously optimistic book, Roland Erne, a leading authority on contemporary trade union developments in Europe, challenges the widely held view that there is no realistic prospect for overcoming the European Union's democratic deficit. Based on a series of important case studies of corporate mergers and wage bargaining, European Union's is both highly original and compelling. Erne's intent is to assess the conditions under which trade unions combine to adopt and implement strategies that have a democratizing effect on EU governance. A must-read for all interested in the fate of European trade unionism, European Union's is here discussed by some of the foremost scholars of that subject. Adapted from the source document.