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State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France (2004)
Journal Article
Gordon, A., & Mathers, A. (2004). State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France. Capital and Class, 28(2), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/030981680408300102

May 2003 saw millions of French workers take to the streets over the issue of pensions, in mobilisations that the financial press presented as a peculiarly French summer ritual (Graham, 2003). Yet a look behind the news shows that the fight over pens... Read More about State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France.

The variable geometry of European trade unionism: The case of the European trade union confederation (2004)
Journal Article
Taylor, G., & Mathers, A. (2004). The variable geometry of European trade unionism: The case of the European trade union confederation. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 10(3), 267-285

Social partner or social movement? European integration and trade union renewal in Europe (2002)
Journal Article
Taylor, G., & Mathers, A. (2002). Social partner or social movement? European integration and trade union renewal in Europe. Labor Studies Journal, 27(1), 93-108. https://doi.org/10.1353/lab.2002.0007

The politics of European integration: A European labour movement in the making? (2002)
Journal Article
Taylor, G., & Mathers, A. (2002). The politics of European integration: A European labour movement in the making?. Capital and Class, 26(3), 39-60. https://doi.org/10.1177/030981680207800103

This paper explores the logical and historical determinants of European integration and reflects on the potential and dangers this presents for labour movement renewal. Through the principle of ‘subsidiarity’ a regulatory gap has been established bet... Read More about The politics of European integration: A European labour movement in the making?.

Working Paper 10. Organsing unions, organising communities? Trades unions councils and community union politics in England and Wales
Working Paper
Taylor, G., & Mathers, A. (2008). Working Paper 10. Organsing unions, organising communities? Trades unions councils and community union politics in England and Wales. Bristol

The division of labour between labour economists and organisation theorists results in there being little or no (epistemic) connection between the disciplines of labour economics and organization theory, and little or no recognition of the (ontic) co... Read More about Working Paper 10. Organsing unions, organising communities? Trades unions councils and community union politics in England and Wales.