The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy

ISBN-13: 9780195089042 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 248 str.

Sanford M. Jacoby

Opis

The new international economy is today the single most important factor shaping relations between employers, unions, and governments in the world's advanced industrial societies. While companies compete in global markets with firms around the world, workers remain fixed in each country and are influenced by local customs and institutions. mores. This book explores how globalization affects the contemporary workplace and how workplace policies can make nations more internationally competitive. Unlike other country-by-country treatments of the subject, this analysis compares and contrasts the experiences of different nations around important developments, such as the labor market consequences of regional trading pacts, the international diffusion of new forms of work organization, and the strategies that nations are pursuing to keep their work systems competitive. The contributors come from a variety of disciplines but all bear expertise in international industrial relations.

Recenzje

This book offers a significant contribution to an increasingly important subject of study. The essays in this book are uniformly well written, well researched and of high quality, reflecting the work of authors who are without exception well-respected experts in their various areas of concentration. Jacoby and colleagues are to be commended for a first-rate book in a new area of research , a book that deserves to be widely read (and used for teaching) by those interested in the place of labor in the new global economy, - Lower Turner. Cornell University.