Current Issues in Labour Relations

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introductory / Gladstone, Alan -- Chapter I. Technological Change and Labour Relations -- Introduction / Lansbury, Russell D. -- Unions and New Technology / Bamber, Greg -- Employers' Response to Technological Change / Rojot, Jacques -- Technological Change in the United States: Unions and Employers in a New Era / Kassalow, Everett M. -- New Technologies and Collective Agreements in the Federal Republic of Germany - The Case of Rationalisation Protection Agreements / Blenk, Werner K. -- New Technology in the Context of Structural Change, with Special Reference to Japan / Kuwahara, Yasuo -- Chapter II. Institutional Forms of Workers' Participation, with Special Reference to the Federal Republic of Germany -- Introduction / Weiss, Manfred -- The Functioning of Institutionalised Forms of Workers' Participation - Seen from a Social Science Perspective / Endruweit, Günter / Berger, Gerhard -- Workers' Participation in the Federal Republic of Germany in an International Perspective / Schregle, Johannes -- An American Perspective of the German Model of Worker Participation / Summers, Clyde -- Co-Determination in the Federal Republic of Germany: An External Perspective from the United Kingdom / Neal, Alan C. -- Chapter III. New Trends in Working Time Arrangements -- Introduction / Treu, Tiziano -- Working Time Reductions and the European Work-Sharing Debate / Blyton, Paul -- Worksharing and Labor Market Flexibility: A Comparative Institutional Analysis / Campbell, Duncan Colin -- Reducing Annual Working Time and Improving Schedule Flexibility - Causes, Effects, Controversies / Bosch, Gerhard -- Working Time Reductions and Employment: The Discrepancy between Macroeconomic and Macroeconomic Research Findings / Hart, Robert A. -- New Working Time Arrangements in the Netherlands / Visser, Jelle -- Changes in Work Time in the United States / Nollen, Stanley D. -- Chapter IV. Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Service Labour Relations -- Introduction / Stieber, Jack -- Unions and Employers in Government in the United States: More Conflict than Co-Operation / Feuille, Peter -- Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations: The Federal Republic of Germany / Keller, Berndt K. -- From Compromise to Resistance: Public Sector Industrial Relations in Canada / Thompson, Mark -- Labour Relations in the Nigerian Civil Service / Damachi, Ukandi G. / Fashoyin, Tayo -- Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations in Australia / Isaac, Joe -- Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations in Israel / Ben-Israel, Ruth -- Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations in Japan / Hanami, Tadashi -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Backmatter