Trade Unions and Regions

Christian Lévesque is a Professor of Employment Relations at HEC Montréal, Canada and the co-Director of the CRIMT (Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work). Peter Fairbrother is a Professor of Management and Labour, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Australia and Affiliated Professor, HEC Montréal, Montréal, Canada. Blandine Emilien is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management (HRM) at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada. María C. González is a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Lucie Morissette is an Associate Professor of Employment Relations in the Department of Human Resource Management at HEC Montréal, Canada.

Chapter 1: Understanding Union Power and Regional Governance, Part I: Organisational Experimentations, Chapter 2: Urban regimes, experiments and institutional innovation, Chapter 3: Collective Bargaining and Regional Resilience: Recalibrating Labour Relations in the Great Lakes Region Automotive Industry, Part 2: Institutional Experimentation, Chapter 4: Reflections on Labour Strategy in Urban and Regional Governance, Chapter 5: Institutional Experimentation in the Montreal Taxi Industry: What Role for the State and Collective Action?, Part 3: Comparative Studies of Experimentation, Chapter 6: Marginalising Manufacturing: The Politics of Downgrading in the UK Apparel Industry, Chapter 7: Power Dynamics, Regional Governance institutions and the Quality of Work: A Comparison of Baja California and Queretaro Aerospace Clusters, Part 4: The Interconnections between Organisational and Institutional Experimentation, Chapter 8: An instance of a tripartite successful institutional experimentation: Dual Vocational Education and Training in Spain, Chapter 9: From organizational to institutional experimentation in the Montreal aerospace industry: Understanding the role of trade unions strategic capabilities, Chapter 10: Unions interrogating regions and regionalism in Australia: The challenges of experimentation