In this second of two panel discussions, leading industrial relations academics, trade union leaders and activists discuss the challenges posed by the return of unemployment in the private sector, where union power has sharply declined in recent decades. What can we learn from history and the analysis of contemporary capitalism? How do we organise the working class response?

With:

Professor John Kelly, Birkbeck, University of London

Steve Turner, Assistant General Secretary, Unite

Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, BFAWU

Carolyn Jones, Director, Institute of Employment Rights in the Chair