This is the third volume dedicated to a World Congress of the IIRA: the one for the Tokyo Congress in 2000 and it is dealing with the European scene. The perspective reflects the fact that Europe has reached a stage where it does no longer make too much sense to analyse national systems in...

The European Union (EU) of today is the result of a 50-year process of confidence building between countries that used to be enemies. Although it has had setbacks and periods of marking time, European integration has, on the whole, been a success story. The EU has always been so attractive that...

The report reviews the literature on the impact of globalisation and European integration on industrial relations, especially within Europe. In particular it discusses the extent to which industrial relations systems are themselves being ‘Europeanised’. The analytical framework provides an...

The world of work will change fundamentally in the coming decades. What forces are at work in the labour market? What changes are to be expected? And what does this mean for the actors in labour market policy? This final report by the Work of the Future Commission, whose members included...