Current Issues in Labour Relations: 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