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...

Corporate governance - the way that major businesses are run - has been of in-creasing concern in recent years. Financial scandals in companies like Enron and WorldCom, as well as similar problems in Europe, have resulted in most major countries introducing corporate governance codes. However,...

This book advances a new theory of why nationalism emerged in the modern world. In particular it explains why nationalism and economic development are closely linked, and why warfare plays a crucial role in the spread of the nation-state system. It is based on qualitative and quantitative...