Data from a 2008 Zogby Survey indicate that most respondents favor the right of teachers to unionize and engage in collective bargaining. Most also believe that public schools in their state do a good job educating students and they do not believe the schools would do a better job if teachers...

The paper examines industrial relations in the shipping industries of Australia and the United States. The two countries have to a considerable extent demonstrated polar approaches to the issue of reform in the context of 'globalisation' pressures. The extent to which local institutional factors...

The paper examines industrial relations in the shipping industries of two Liberal Market Economies (LMEs), Australia and the United States and in two Coordinated Market Economies (CMEs), Germany and Denmark. Hall and Soskice?s (2001) theory of Liberal versus Coordinated market economies has been...