The contributors point the way to a new interpretation of the employer's role in industrial relations, by evaluating and explaining the distinctiveness of British developments in comparison to a variety of other countries.

Contributors: Giovanni Contini, Superintendancy of Archives for Tuscany, Florence; Mowell Harris, University of Durham; Bryn Jones, University of Bath; Werner Plumpe, Ruhr University of Bochum, Alastair Reed, University of Cambridge; Keith Sisson; University of Warwick

Steven Tolliday, Jonathan Zeitlin