Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions

This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe, opening the wayto a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how work helps shape new identities.

JOHN KIRKwas Professor Emeritus of Work and Cultural Studies at London Metropolitan University, UK.He was the author of Class, Culture and Social Change, The British Working Class in the 20th Century, and with Christine Wall, Work and Identity: Historical and Cultural Contexts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

SYLVIE CONTREPOISis Senior Researcher at London Metropolitan University's Working Lives Research Institute, UK,and Member of the CRESPPA CNRS institute in France. Sylvie is the author of Syndicats, la nouvelle donne: Enquete au Coeur d'un bassin industriel et ouvrierand joint editor of Globalizing Employment Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

STEVE JEFFERYS is Professor of European Employment Studies and Director of London Metropolitan University's Working Lives Research Institute, UK. He is the author of Management, Work and Welfare in Western Europe: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis (with Mick Carpenter), and of Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite at Work: Changing French Employment Relations and Management.