Thoroughly updated and revised by a team of international experts, this continues to be the most authoritative and accessible overview of industrial relations practices around the world. This sixth edition includes a major new approach to analysing the forces shaping employment relations in the world economy.

GREG J. BAMBER is Professor, Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia and Visiting Professor, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. RUSSELL D. LANSBURY is Emeritus Professor, and CHRIS F. WRIGHT is Senior Lecturer, both in Work and Organisational Studies, The University of Sydney Business School, Australia. NICK WAILES is Professor and Associate Dean, UNSW Business School, Australia.

Foreword - William Brown
Contributors
Figures, tables and boxes
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Preface
1 Introduction: An internationally comparative approach to employment relations - Nick Wailes, Chris F. Wright, Greg J. Bamber and Russell D. Lansbury
2 Employment relations in the United Kingdom - Jeremy Waddington
3 Employment relations in the United States - Harry C. Katz and Alexander J.S. Colvin
4 Employment relations in Canada - Daphne G. Taras and Scott Walsworth
5 Employment relations in Australia - Chris F. Wright and Russell D. Lansbury
6 Employment relations in Italy - Lucio Baccaro and Valeria Pulignano
7 Employment relations in France - Patrice Laroche
8 Employment relations in Germany - Berndt K. Keller and Anja Kirsch
9 Employment relations in Denmark - Jorgen Steen Madsen, Jesper Due and Soren Kaj Andersen
10 Employment relations in Japan - Hiromasa Suzuki, Katsuyuki Kubo and Kazuya Ogura
11 Employment relations in South Korea - Byoung-Hoon Lee
12 Employment relations in China - Fang Lee Cooke
13 Employment relations in India - Anil Verma and Shyam Sundar
14 Conclusions: Beyond varieties of capitalism, towards convergence and internationalisation? - Chris F. Wright, Nick Wailes, Russell D. Lansbury and Greg J. Bamber
Notes
References
Index