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A broad-ranging introduction to the changing nature and context of industrial relations in contemporary Europe is offered in this textbook.

Through a coordinated analysis of industrial relations in specific European nations, the book gives a representative, up-to-date and dynamic understanding of the subject. Across the individual national case studies, a range of common elements is examined. These include: the differing roles of governments, business and labour as actors in the industrial relations system, and their mutual relationships; the dynamics of collective bargaining, conflict, consultation and worker participation; and the overall performance of industrial relations in economic, social and political terms.

These issues are addressed within the wider context of changes affecting industrial relations in Europe in the 1990s: European unification; the globalization of production and markets, the information revolution; the destabilization of labour markets; the fragmentation of societies in the post-industrial era; and the crisis of welfare states.

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• Traditions and Transitions in Industrial Relations
• A European View
• From Pluralism to... Where? Industrial Relations in Great Britain
• Contestation and State Intervention Forever? Industrial Relations in France
• Robust Corporatism, Still? Industrial Relations in Germany
• Corporatism beyond Repair? Industrial Relations in Sweden
• Weak Corporatisms Going Different Ways? Industrial Relations in the Netherlands and Belgium
• A Truly Mixed Case
• Industrial Relations in Italy
• Aspiring Corporatism? Industrial Relations in Spain
• The Transformation of Industrial Relations in Some Central and Eastern European Countries
• Revised Diversity
• From the Neo-Liberal Decade to beyond Maastricht

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CHOICE Review

This work on European industrial relations is aimed at students studying international commerce. Countries covered include Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium, Italy, Spain, and aspects of central and eastern European economies, followed by a concluding chapter that concentrates on the future of business a decade after the Maastricht agreement. All chapters concentrate rather well on the differing roles of government, business, and labor; the dynamics of collective bargaining; and the overall performance of industrial relations in economic, social, and political terms. The reason for this clarity is the editorial development of similar themes. Moreover, the book's format is clear, and abundant use is made of chapter indexes and charts of all kinds. This is carried through to an appendix of statistical tables at the end that deals with population and age, GNP, imports and exports, labor force composition, unemployment rates, union density, collective bargaining coverage, labor disputes, consumer price indexes, and many other economic statistical tables for all of the countries covered. In short, a very useful and efficient book for both undergraduate and graduate students, economists, and international business professionals. R. W. Kern; University of New Mexico

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Joris Van Ruysseveldt is Assistant Professor at the Open University of The Netherlands. His publications include International Human Resource Management (edited with Anne-Wil Harzing, Sage, 1995) and Comparative Industrial and Employment Relations (edited with Rien Huiskamp and Jacques van Hoof, Sage, 1995).

Jelle Visser is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He has published several books and articles on trade unions, industrial relations, labour time reduction and social policies, including In Search of an Inclusive Unionism (1990). He has been a coordinator of Development of Union Systems in Western European Societies since 1945 (DUES) and an international consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris.

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Colin Crouch Trinity College Oxford and Istituto Universitario Europeo Fiesole

Hans Moerel Catholic University of Nijmegen

Hans Slomp Catholic University of Nijmegen

Jacques van Hoof University of Leiden

Marc van der Meer University of Amsterdam