Changing Industrial Relations in Europe

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 576 pages
• Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
• Edition: 2nd Edition April 15, 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0631205519
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0631205517
• Book Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 2.2 pounds

Product Description
Changing Industrial Relations in Europe is the second edition of the influential and widely used textbook, Industrial Relations in the New Europe. As with the earlier edition, the book will be a definitive text and reference for all students in industrial relations and human resource management looking at international issues.

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Changing Industrial Relations in Europe is the second edition of the influential and widely used textbook, Industrial Relations in the New Europe. As with the earlier edition, the book will be a definitive text and reference for all students in industrial relations and human resource management looking at international issues.


For the new book an outstanding team of international experts has produced a completely updated and reworked analysis of industrial relations in the fifteen European Union states and the two other major European countries. The book's unrivaled breadth and depth provides:

• The latest thinking on current industrial relations trends and controversies within the broader context of internationalization, European integration, and the moves toward monetary union.
  
• A basic description of the institutions and actors in each country.
  
• A strong focus in each contribution on analysing in a clear, readable and accessible manner the underlying dynamic of the industrial relations system in question, and the emerging trends for the 1990s.
  
• A wide-ranging introduction from the editors that contributes to current debates in comparative industrial relations analysis.
  
• The views of leading local experts on each of the countries covered.

The sheer diversity of approaches to the employment relationship in the countries of Europe is both confirmed and made accessible to analysis in this unique text which will be an indispensable resource and reference to all students and scholars in the field.

Reader Reviews
A nice discussion of the recent history of industrial relations in the European Union and Switzerland. Each country gets a chapter explaining who its main trade unions are, their membership demographics, and a description of their counterparts in the corporate world. Comparisons are made between countries, regarding their relative levels of unionisation and industrial disputes. Often, the pressures of a EU-wide common market are also explained. The effects of these on nation-based trade unions, which are still most of them, due to legacies of language and history. The book is good for getting a quick, accurate briefing on each country and on the entire EU scene. Comment | | (Report this)