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