Titlebook: New Labour Policy, Industrial Relations and the Trade Unions; Steve Coulter Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishe

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loyment reforms. Steve Coulter analyses the dimensions of the often fractious Labour-union partnership and shows how the TUC pursued an ‘insider lobbying‘ route to influence the shape of New Labour‘s policies.978-1-137-49575-4

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The Political Economy of UK Industrial Relations: A Theoretical and Historical Overview,ational politics. Third, the fragmented structure of UK trade unions renders the Labour-union alliance inherently unstable. Taken together, these arguments suggest that insider lobbying out of the public eye by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) may be the least destabilising method of conducting the alliance.

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,Political Unionism and Political Exchange in New Labour’s Second Term,nt in which party leaders agreed a series of policy concessions in exchange for continued guarantees of trade union funding. However, this was a largely ineffective strategy, producing few genuine concessions and further damaging the party-union relationship.

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Loosening Party-Union Ties: Clause 4 and OMOV,ance and policy development. The chapter addresses the question of why the trade unions acquiesced in this diminution of their influence over the party they had founded in the nineteenth century, and what alternative means became available to them to lobby party and government leaders in the growing absence of formal channels of influence.

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Introduction: Political Trade Unionism in a Cold Climate,r unions to exert influence over Labour governments and argues that one of these, ‘insider lobbying’ by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), was crucial in steering Blair’s free market agenda in a more collectivist direction.

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Conclusion: Political Trade Unionism Reconsidered,The concluding chapter examines the evidence concerning the unions’ effect on policy, and argues that the Trades Union Congress (TUC) had a limited, but real, effect on Labour’s policies. The chapter also offers some reflections on the prospects and strategies of interest groups in ‘hostile’ political-economic environments.

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Book 2014New Labour was outwardly hostile to trade unions and their concerns. Yet the Blair government worked closely with the TUC on several key employment reforms. Steve Coulter analyses the dimensions of the often fractious Labour-union partnership and shows how the TUC pursued an ‘insider lobbying‘ route to influence the shape of New Labour‘s policies.