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Title

Comparative industrial & employment relations / edited by Joris van Ruysseveldt, Rien Huiskamp & Jacques van Hoof.

Publication

London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Ruysseveldt, J. van.
• Huiskamp, Rien.
• Hoof, J. J. B. M. van.

Description

xi, 356 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• This broad-ranging textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to industrial relations and employment relations in the wider economic, technological and political context.
• Transcending any specific national setting, it compares industrial and employment relations in different countries, and identifies the elements of commonality across the range of national systems. Throughout, employment relations are set within the framework of the overall relationship between firms, markets, interest organizations and governments.
• Comparative Industrial and Employment Relations will be essential reading for students of industrial relations and for those involved in human resource management and personnel management seeking a wider perspective on the context of industrial and employment relations.

Alternative Title

Comparative industrial and employment relations

Subject

• Industrial relations
• Management > Employee participation

Note

• "In association with the Open University of the Netherlands."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-344) and index.

Contents

• 1. Growing cross-national diversity or diversity tout court? An introduction to comparative industrial and employment relations / Joris Van Ruysseveldt -- 2. Regulating the employment relationship: an analytical framework / Rien Huiskamp -- 3. Trade unions from a comparative perspective / Jelle Visser -- 4. Employers and employers' associations / Frans van Waarden -- 5. Government intervention in industrial relations / Frans van Waarden -- 6. Collective bargaining in transition / Rien Huiskamp -- 7. Industrial democracy, employee participation and operational autonomy / Rien Huiskamp -- 8. Wages from a European perspective / David Marsden -- 9. Working time and time resource management / Willem de Lange -- 10. Labour relations, organization and qualifications / Arndt Sorge -- 11. New production technologies and changing work systems / Arndt Sorge -- 12. The crisis of Fordism: restructuring in the automobile industry / Ben Dankbaar --
• 13. Service work in European countries: organization, technology and industrial relations in banking and retailing / Albert Mok and Kea Tijdens.

ISBN

• 0803979665
• 0803979673 (pbk.)

LCCN

95069793

OCLC

• 34017862
• ocm34017862

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries