This article chronicles industrial relations developments throughout the European Union (EU) during 1999. The information is gleaned from articles published by the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO). The text, therefore, contains numerical references to records contained in the...

This paper presents a systematic analysis of the factors influencing the nature of the "constrained choices" being made by management and employee representatives in concluding agreements establishing EWCs. Four influences - a "statutory model effect"; a "learning effect"; a "country effect";...

Industrial relations (IR) in the UK are often seen as being in a state of some disarray. Yet analytical advances can also be detected. This article takes one part of IR, context-sensitive research, to suggest ways of building on such advances. Its focus is the intellectual core of the subject,...