Current Issues in Labour Relations : : An International Perspective / / ed. by Alan Gladstone, Jack Stieber, Manfred Weiss, Russell Landsbury, Tiziano Treu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Bamber, Greg,; Ben-Israel, Ruth,; Berger, Gerhard,; Blenk, Werner K.,; Blyton, Paul,; Bosch, Gerhard,; Campbell, Duncan Colin,; Damachi, Ukandi G.,; Endruweit, Günter,; Fashoyin, Tayo,; Feuille, Peter,; Gladstone, Alan,; Hanami, Tadashi,; Hart, Robert A.,; Isaac, Joe,; Kassalow, Everett M.,; Keller, Berndt K.,; Kuwahara, Yasuo,; Lansbury, Russell D.,; Neal, Alan C.,; Nollen, Stanley D.,; Rojot, Jacques,; Schregle, Johannes,; Stieber, Jack,; Summers, Clyde,; Thompson, Mark,; Treu, Tiziano,; Visser, Jelle,; Weiss, Manfred,
• HerausgeberIn: Gladstone, Alan,; Landsbury, Russell,; Stieber, Jack,; Treu, Tiziano,; Weiss, Manfred,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.) :; Num. tab.

Table of Contents

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