This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held to assess the current state of the analysis of the labour market and of industrial relations and their relationship to economic performance.

Acknowledgements - The International Economic Association - List of Participants and Contributors - Abbreviations and Acronyms - Introduction; R.Brunetta & C.Dell'Aringa - PART 1 CORPORATISM AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE - Sectors in Modern Capitalism: Modes of Governance and Variations in Performance; P.C.Schmitter - Changing Unemployment Rates in Europe and the USA: Institutional Structure and Regional Variation; M.Kendix & M.Olson - Trade Unions in the Exposed Sector: Their Influence on Neo-corporatist Behaviour; C.Crouch - Two Kinds of Rigidity: Corporate Communities and Collectivism; R.Dore - Between Liberalism and Corporatism: The Effect of Trade Unions and Governments on Economic Performance in Eighteen OECD Countries; H.Paloheimo - Social Conflict and Populist Policies in Latin America; J.D.Sachs - Reinterpreting Corporatism and Explaining Unemployment: Coordinated and Non-coordinated Market Economies; D.Soskice - PART 2 UNIONS AND INCOMES POLICIES - Incomes Policies in a North American Setting; J.McCallum - Industrial Employment in Italy: the Consequences of Shifts in Union Power in the 1970s and 1980s; L.E.Reichlin & M.Salvati - Incomes Policies as Cooperative Strategies: Lessons from the Italian Experience of the 1980s; R.Brunetta & C.Carraro - Trade Unions and Economic Performance: The British Evidence; D.Metcalf - On the Divergence of Unionism among Developed Countries; R.Freeman - PART 3 LABOUR FLEXIBILITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT - Wage Formation and Employment: Centralisation or Decentralisation?; S.Bowles & R.Boyer - The Passing of the Golden Age; A.Newell & J.Symons - Inter-Industry Wage Structure and the Power of Incumbent Workers; A.Lindbeck & D.J.Snower - Wage Determination and Union Behaviour in Italy: An Efficiency Wage Interpretation; C.Dell'Aringa & C.Lucifora - Institutions and Labour Mobility: Occupational and Internal Labour Markets in Britain, France, Italy and West Germany; D.Marsden - Labour Flexibility and Insecurity: Towards an Alternative Strategy; G.Standing - Index