This book broadens the research on the underworld of precarious and not-represented workers, through a selection of original case studies from across the globe written by leading experts. The book unveils the working conditions affecting this vast labour force that is so important to capital...

Das deutsche Tarifsystem – eine Kurzdarstellung -- Die gesetzliche Tarifeinheit -- Auswirkungen des Tarifeinheitsgesetzes auf die Anwendung von Tarifverträgen -- Beurteilung der gesetzlichen Tarifeinheit nach dem Mehrheitsprinzip.

Chapter 1. Introduction: What is Concession Bargaining? -- Chapter 2. The World of Concession Bargaining -- Chapter 3. The First Wave: Concession Bargaining in the 1980s -- Chapter 4. The Second Wave: The Ultra-Concession Bargaining of the Past Decade -- Chapter 5. The Message Behind the New...

Offering a critical assessment of the main conceptual debates concerning labour management partnership and cooperation at the workplace, this book evaluates the search for positive employment relations in five countries. The provision of collective employee representation, normally through trade...

The book attempts to examine whether trade unions in Japan contributed to raising wages, productivity and firm's performance. In the western world trade unions are often regarded as organizations which prevent firms from performing well. The Japanese case may be different from Europe and North...

Although many industrialized countries have had to face the same political and economic pressures in reforming their public sectors there have been different reactions and a diversity of solutions to the emerging problems. This book examines the most significant initiatives targeted towards the...

Studies the interactions between monetary and wage policies in the euro area. This book discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. It also features numerical simulations of policy competition and numerical solutions to policy cooperation