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| List of Tables | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Locating the 2000 Statutory Recognition Procedure | |
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| The right to union recognition | |
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| The history of statutory intervention | |
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| The 1999 Act and statutory recognition | |
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| The access and unfair practices provisions | |
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| Comparing legislative systems | |
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| Design or operation? - the flaws in the procedure | |
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| When a majority is not enough | |
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| Restrictions on collective bargaining | |
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| Legalism - an increasing focus within the cases | |
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| Cases getting longer to complete | |
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| Keeping the judges out - the fear of judicial review | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A Legislative Prompt? The TUC Perspective on the 2000 Recognition Procedure | |
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| Discussions between the TUC and the government | |
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| The 'Fairness at work' White Paper | |
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| TUC response to the White Paper | |
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| CBI reaction to the White Paper | |
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| Third round of discussions between the TUC and the government | |
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| The Employment Relations Bill | |
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| The outcome - has statutory recognition been worth the fight? | |
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| Third Time Lucky? - The Operation and Outcomes of the Statutory Recognition Procedure | |
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| The level of applications | |
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| Applications accepted and rejected under the statutory procedure | |
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| Establishing the bargaining unit | |
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| The granting of automatic recognition | |
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| Ballots | |
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| The ballot period | |
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| The method of bargaining | |
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| Derecognition | |
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| The shadow effect? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Challenging Recognition - The Legitimacy of Employer Behaviour | |
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| Pre-empting recognition | |
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| Establishing alternative channels of representation | |
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| Employer-defined representation | |
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| Employer contestation within the statutory procedure | |
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| Testing support | |
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| Stalling the process | |
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| Exploiting technicalities | |
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| Influencing CAC discretion | |
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| Challenging likely support | |
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| Contesting the bargaining unit | |
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| Manipulating the bargaining unit | |
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| Promoting a ballot | |
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| Ballots | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Organising for Recognition - Union Strategies | |
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| Shaping union strategy - the influence of the statutory procedure | |
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| Workplace mobilisation and union strategy - is there a convergence? | |
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| Recruitment and organising strategies and the limits of voluntarism | |
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| Union strategy and workplace mobilisation | |
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| Promoting collective identity | |
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| Union organising | |
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| The key role of activists | |
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| The limits of voluntarism? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Be Careful What You Wish for � Unfair Practices and the Law | |
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| The early experiences of unfair practices, 2000-2003 | |
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| Calls for changes to the law | |
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| What the unfair practices law achieved | |
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| Union busters, threats of closure and intimidation | |
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| What is unfair about unfair practices? | |
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| Complaints reaching the CAC � problems with the legislation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Fragmentation of Representation - 'Contract-based Recognition' | |
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| The impossibility of national bargaining units? | |
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| Privatisation and outsourcing - contract-based recognition and the contradictions of capitalism | |
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| TUPE and the complexity of representation | |
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| Temporary and agency workers | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Future for Statutory Recognition | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of cases | |
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| Index | |