Alan Gladstone & Russell Landsbury 
Current Issues in Labour Relations [PDF ebook] 
An International Perspective

Frontmatter — Table of Contents — Contributors — Introductory — Chapter I. Technological Change and Labour Relations — Introduction — Unions and New Technology — Employers‘ Response to Technological Change — Technological Change in the United States: Unions and Employers in a New Era — New Technologies and Collective Agreements in the Federal Republic of Germany — The Case of ‚Rationalisation Protection Agreements‘ — New Technology in the Context of Structural Change, with Special Reference to Japan — Chapter II. Institutional Forms of Workers‘ Participation, with Special Reference to the Federal Republic of Germany — Introduction — The Functioning of Institutionalised Forms of Workers‘ Participation — Seen from a Social Science Perspective — Workers‘ Participation in the Federal Republic of Germany in an International Perspective — An American Perspective of the German Model of Worker Participation — Co-Determination in the Federal Republic of Germany: An External Perspective from the United Kingdom — Chapter III. New Trends in Working Time Arrangements — Introduction — Working Time Reductions and the European Work-Sharing Debate — Worksharing and Labor Market Flexibility: A Comparative Institutional Analysis — Reducing Annual Working Time and Improving Schedule Flexibility — Causes, Effects, Controversies — Working Time Reductions and Employment: The Discrepancy between Macroeconomic and Macroeconomic Research Findings — New Working Time Arrangements in the Netherlands — Changes in Work Time in the United States — Chapter IV. Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Service Labour Relations — Introduction — Unions and Employers in Government in the United States: More Conflict than Co-Operation — Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations: The Federal Republic of Germany — From Compromise to Resistance: Public Sector Industrial Relations in Canada — Labour Relations in the Nigerian Civil Service — Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations in Australia — Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations in Israel — Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations in Japan — Index of Names — Index of Subjects — Backmatter