Comparative Industrial & Employment Relations. This item is unavailable.Comparative Industrial & Employment Relations

Comparing industrial and employment relations in different countries and identifying the elements of commonality across the range of national systems,

this comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to industrial and employment relations in the wider economic, technological and political context.

Throughout, employment relations are set within the framework of the overall relationships between firms, markets, interest organizations and governments. Topics addressed include: distinct theoretical approaches to analyzing industrial and employment relations; the role of interest groups and organized interests in the industrial relations system; differences in the level of government intervention in industrial relations over time and between nations; the processes of bargaining, collective representation and participation, and the growth of flexibility; changes over time in three key elements of employment relations - wages, working time and qualifications; and developments in employment relations, work organization and technology in three important sectors - the automobile industry, banking and retailing.

Joris Van Ruysseveldt is Assistant Professor at the Open University of the Netherlands. His publications include International Human Resource Management (edited with Anne-Wil Harzing, SAGE 1995) and Industrial Relations in Europe: Traditions and Transitions (edited with Jelle Visser, SAGE, 1995 - in production).

Rien Huiskamp is head of Huiskamp Research and Consultancy and a part-time tutor at the Open University of the Netherlands. He was formerly a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and the IRRU, Warwick University.

Jacques van Hoof is Professor of Industrial Sociology at the Open University of the Netherlands and Professor of Empirical Sociology at the University of Leiden.

CONTRIBUTORS

Ben Dankbaar MERIT Maastricht

Willem de Lange IVA Netherlands

David Marsden London School of Economics

Albert Mok University of Antwerp and Agricultural University Wageningen

Arndt Sorge, Open University Heerlen

Kea Tijdens University of Amsterdam

Jelle Visser University of Amsterdam

Frans van Waarden University of Utrecht