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Her call is particularly focussed upon young workers at the bottom end of the labour market to get organised and move from being individualised competitors to collectively minded union collaborators - and to then rejuvenate unions and stop them from dying out as the more unionised, older workers retire. Holgate, Jane Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence, London: Pluto Press, 2021; 272 pp.: ISBN 074534402X, £16.99 Hardy, Jane Nothing to Lose but Our Chains: Work and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Britain, London: Pluto Press, 2021; 272 pp.: 9780745341040, £19.99 Livingston, Eve Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions, London: Pluto Press, 2021; 160 pp.: ISBN 0745341624, £9.99 With the cost-of-living crisis in full swing, it would not be illogical to foresee potential for unions to become resurgent again. [Extracted from the article]

Where and how can we determine that class struggle has resulted in a provisional "armistice" in favour of labour, if the latter has been achieved through a re-composition of capital - via new legal arrangements and acceptance of a profit oriented labour process - and, thus, is still forced to sell its labour power at its value if it wants to reproduce itself in the "world market"? Ovetz, Robert Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle, London: Pluto Press, 2020; 288 pp.: ISBN: 9780745340869, £19.99 Unruly, zealous and creative are the class struggles presented in this recalcitrant book. It is through and only through class struggle that capital and labour transform and "consolidate nodes of class power" while, and in falling short from social revolution, their inherent antagonism prevails. [Extracted from the article]

In this sense, the different cases studied in the book express experiences of workers' organization I in, outside of i , and I against i established trade unions. The question of the legacy of trade unions would be better formulated by differentiating the concrete trade unions existing nowadays, and their leaders, with trade unions as a form of workers' organization in capitalism. If traditional trade unions are in crisis, labor movement needs to rethink unions' structures and strategy in order to be equipped to address precariousness. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "What's the Point of Industrial Relations? In Defence of Critical Social Science," edited by Ralph Darlington.

The article reviews the book "The Meaning of Militancy? Postal Workers and Industrial Relations," Gregor Gall.

The article reviews the book "Britain at Work."

Reviews the book "Labour Relations in Transition: Wages, Employment and Industrial Conflict in Russia," edited by Simon Clarke.

The article reviews the book "Land and Labour Relations in South-West Bangladesh: Resources, Power, Conflict," by Anjan Kumar Datta.

The article reviews the book "The Dynamics of Employee Relations," 2nd edition, by Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull.

Reviews the book "Capital, the State and Labour: A Global Perspective," edited by Juliet Schor and Jong-Il You.