Foreword - William BrownContributorsFigures, tables and boxesAbbreviationsPreface1 Introduction: An internationally comparative approach to employment relations - Nick Wailes, Chris F. Wright, Greg J. Bamber and Russell D. Lansbury2 Employment relations in the United Kingdom - Jeremy Waddington3...

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introducing Comparative Employment Relations -- 2. Understanding Variety and Change in Capitalist Economies -- 3. The Changing Role of the State in Employment Relations -- 4. Trade Unions in and Beyond the Workplace -- 5. Does Collective Bargaining Still...

The American and British systems of industrial relations on the eve of World War I -- The impact of World War I: experimenting with corporatism -- The twenties: the retreat from wartime corporatist experiments and the quest for new forms of voluntary organization -- The Great Depression and the...