The field of employment and industrial relations is undergoing dramatic changes in the developed world; whilst developing economies are also experiencing their own shifts in practice and policy.
The chapters in this collection provide detailed and up-to-date analyses of industrial relations developments in four contrasting economies: Australia, the United Kingdom, China and Vietnam. Readers are invited to make a comparative study of these very different regions and regimes.
Chapters are contributed by leading authorities in employment and industrial relations and make the complex detail of new industrial relations laws easy to understand.
This book is designed for students and scholars of employment and industrial relations, and provides an excellent reference for practitioners and students of labour economics and international and comparative human resource management.
Table of Content
Australian Industrial Relations in 2005 – Richard Hall
The Work Choices Revolution
The Australian Labour Market in 2005 – Martin O′Brien, Richard Denniss & John Burgess
Wages and Wage Determination in 2005 – Martin J Watts & William Mitchell
Industrial Legislation in 2005 – Joellen Riley & Troy Sarina
Major Tribunal Decisions in 2005 – Joseph Catanzariti & Michael Byrnes
Trade Unionism in 2005 – Alison Barnes
Employer Matters in 2005 – Bruce Hearn Mackinnon
Recent Industrial Relations Developments in the United Kingdom – David Nash
Continuity and Change Under New Labour 1997-2005
Recent Industrial Relations Developments in China and Viet Nam – Chang-Hee Lee
The Transformation of Industrial Relations in East Asian Transition Economies