This book pursues principal aims. First it describes and reviews current concerns in regard to
the conditions of labour markets production organizations working conditions and industrial
and employment relations. Prominent among these concerns are the crisis in trade unions and in
democratic labour market institutions and the rise of what many critics regard as technocratic
administrative powers in the displacement of democratic practices. Furthermore the book
explores aspects of the search for socio-cultural innovation in the wide areas of work
industrial organizational management and employment relations. It therefore deals with
participatory democratic practices in the world of work and production with citizenship
social cohesion wider participation in education and training as well as with cultural
interests in identity solidarity and non-market values.
