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.

List of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements 1. State restructuring in tow states 2. a conceptual analysis: changing state managemetn and trade unions 3.pathways to change: the restructuring of the administrative state 4. Trade unions addressing chage 5. Remoulding the state labour process 6.The state, depoliticisation and unions 7.Public sector unions: contesting indibidualisation, defending collectivity 8. A way forward? bibliography index