In recent decades‎,‎ trade unions have suffered major reversals and experienced declining memberships‎.‎ Transnational corporations and state‎-owned multi‎-nationals have increasingly implemented deteriorating terms and conditions of employment‎,‎ with vulnerable and insecure job contracts‎.‎ In this context‎,‎ there has been a wide‎-ranging debate about the form of trade unionism‎,‎ the bases for collective organization and struggle and the future of trade unionism‎.‎ This book addresses these questions both theoretically‎,‎ in relation to debates‎,‎ as well as substantively via a series of selected studies‎.‎ It is a must read for all those studying industrial relations‎,‎ human resource management‎,‎ the sociology of work and employment‎,‎ economic sociology‎,‎ economic and labor geography and business studies in general‎.‎