Japanese and Korean labor markets and social protections in a comparative perspective -- The politics of labor market reform in hard times : a theoretical framework -- The institutional origins of labor markets and social protections in Japan and Korea -- Japan : liberalization for outsiders,...

Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Preliminary steps to understanding employment and industrial relations in South Korea / Byoung-Hoon Lee -- 1. Viewing Korean employment and industrial relations / Young-Myon Lee and Bruce E. Kaufman -- 2. The historical development of employment and labor...

The Evolution of Korean Industrial and Employment Relations explores current employment and workplace relations practice in South Korea, tracing their origins to key historical events and giving cultural, politico-economic and global context to the inevitable cultural adaptation in one of Asia's...

Jiyeoun Song focuses on South Korea and Japan, which have advanced labor market reform and confronted the rapid rise of a split in labor markets between protected regular workers and underprotected and underpaid nonregular workers.

Introduction : the changing nature of labor, management, and government interactions / Harry C. Katz -- The Irish experiment in social partnership / Paul Teague and James Donaghey -- The Netherlands : resilience in structure, revolution in substance / Hans Slomp -- Collective bargaining and...