What is the answer to the high unemployment facing the European Union? Two antagonisitic social logics are counterposed to each other, Robert Went argues. He makes the case for movements and campaigns for a collective shortening of the workweek without loss of pay and with compensatory hiring, enforced by (European) law

A renewal of working class combativity and the building of a strong leftwing in the trade unions is vital to socialist revival in Britain. Relating to recent debate in this journal, McIlroy presents a critical review of developments in the unions during the first two years of the New Labour government.

This article examines the current position and prospects of British trade unions, focusing on the manufacturing sector and the restructured public sector. The argument is that over the last two decades there has been a recomposition of unions in these sectors, with diverse and uneven implications for the prospects of union renewal.

An analysis of feminisation of employment in Britain between 1981 and 1996 and the implications for male employment.

A 'research-bourgeois' revolution in UK higher education is seeing research use-values subordinated to RAE-value. Research workers are becoming alienated from their work. With the enclosure of 'intellectual commons', some research workers are being forced to alienate their own research-labour-power as two new classes are emerging within academia, a 'research proletariat' and a class of 'research capitalists'.

This article examines the relationship between modern Irish republican ideology, the Peace Process and the influence of pluralist and postmodern conceptions of identity politics.

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