Comparative Employment Relations: An Introductioin

1. Overview - Convergence or Continuing Diversity of Industrial Relations Systems?.

2. From the Fabulous East: the Japanese Origins of Human Resource Management and the Convergence Hypothesis.

3. Japanese-style Employment Practices Outside Japan.

4. Trade Unions - in Need of some International Solidarity.

5. Comparative Collective Bargaining.

6. Training - Comparative Routes to Skill Formation.

7. The Rules Governing Employment: A Comparative View.

8. Comparative Labour Law - Individual Employment Rights.

9. Collective Labour Law.

10. Transnational Companies, Globalization and Industrial Relations.

11. Minimum Standards in International Trade.

12. Participation: Partnership or Teamworking for Productivity.

13. Conclusions and Prospects for Comparative Industrial Relations.

References.

Index.