Provides an overview of the different systems of workers' participation in decision-making in enterprises (understood in the widest sense of the term, i.e. as producers of goods and services, of a public or private nature, to which employed persons lend their services).

Analyses the present system of social dialogue and the role that the social partners have played. Examines the various labour relations issues especially in the context of the trend towards decentralization and deregulation. Covers the period 1990s-2001.

Discusses the history of social dialogue and its achievements in the Czech Republic during the 1990s.

Examines legislative changes since 1990 in Central and Eastern European countries with regard to the mechanisms, institutions and levels of collective bargaining, the legal nature of collective agreements, union representativeness, and labour dispute settlement.