"Employment Relations is widely taught in business schools around the world. However, an increasing emphasis is being placed on the comparative and international dimensions of the relationships between employers and workers. It is becoming crucial to consider today's work and employment issues...

1. Introduction : industrial relations and social democratic politics -- 2. Revolutionary ethical socialism in interwar Germany -- 3. Revolutionary socialism in a cold climate 1932-1939 --4. Trade unions under 'planned capitalism' 1939, 1946 -- 5. Democratic socialism in the Cold Wat 1946-1951...