The Workers of Nations Industrial Relations in a Global Economy [Hardcover]

The new international economy is today the single most important factor shaping relations between employers, unions, and governments in the world's advanced industrial societies. While companies compete in global markets with firms around the world, workers remain fixed in each country and are influenced by local customs and institutions. mores. This book explores how globalization affects the contemporary workplace and how workplace policies can make nations more internationally competitive. Unlike other country-by-country treatments of the subject, this analysis compares and contrasts the experiences of different nations around important developments, such as the labor market consequences of regional trading pacts, the international diffusion of new forms of work organization, and the strategies that nations are pursuing to keep their work systems competitive. The contributors come from a variety of disciplines but all bear expertise in international industrial relations.

Contributors
1. Social Dimensions of Global Economic Integration,Sanford M. Jacoby
I. Industrial Relations Consequences
2. Labor Cost Incentives for Capital Mobility in the European Community,Christopher L. Erickson and Sarosh C. Kuruvilla
3. Employee Benefits in Europe and the United States,Daniel J.B. Mitchell
4. The End of Corporatism? Wage Setting in the Nordic and Germanic Countries,Peter Lange, Michael Wallerstein, and Miriam Golden
5. Strikes Around the World: A Game Theoretic Approach,George Tsebelis and Peter Lange
6. The Impact of Foreign Investment on U.S. Industrial Relations: The Case of California's Japanese-Owned Plants,Ruth Milkman
II. Policy Issues
7. Boundaries, Compartments, and Markets: Paradoxes of Industrial Relations in Growth Pole Regions of France, Italy, and the United States,Michael Storper
8. Some Thoughts and Evidence on Industrial PolilS/