IONA BYFORD Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth Business School in the Department of HRM and Marketing, UK IAN FITZGERALD Senior Researcher in the School of the Built Environment at Northumbria University, UK IAN GREENWOOD Lecturer in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management in the Division of Work and Employment Relations (WERD) and a member of the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC), Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK JANE HOLGATE Senior Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK JO MCBRIDE Lecturer in Industrial Relations and HRM at the University of Bradford, School of Management, UK MIGUEL MARTINEZ LUCIO Professor at the University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, UK KIM MOODY Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Employment Studies, University of Hertfordshire, UK ROBERT PERRETT Lecturer in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management at Bradford University School of Management, UK CAROL STEPHENSON Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Inequality at the University of Northumbria, UK PAUL STEWART Professor of the Sociology of Work and Employment, University of Strathclyde, UK JOHN STIRLING teaches employment relations and is Head of Division of Sociology and Criminology at Northumbria University, UK AMANDA TATTERSALL is a Union and Community Organizer and Researcher and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Unions NSW, the PeakCentral Labour Council in New South Wales, Australia EDSON IOSHIAQUI URANO Lecturer in the Department of Portuguese Language& Luso-Brazilian Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, Japan