Dr Tony Royle is Reader in International and Comparative Industrial Relations at the Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely in the field of industrial relations in multinational corporations and is the author of Working for McDonald's in Europe: The Unequal Struggle?,
Professor Brian Towers is currently Associate Fellow at the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick. He has held a number of teaching and research appointments at British and American universities. He is Consulting and Founding Editor of the Industrial Relations Journal and has arbitrated for ACAS since 1975. He has published widely on trade unions and industrial relations public policy including The Representation Gap: Change and Reform in British and American Industrial Relations.