Contributors from eight industrialized countries (Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, and the United States) examine the changing nature of labor-management relations, with a particular focus on the role of tripartism and the decentralization of collective bargaining. Although nonexistent in the United States and on the decline in Japan and Australia, tripartism flourishes in Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, expanding beyond traditional corporatist partners to include women's organizations, senior citizens, and other representatives of "civic society." The vibrancy of the coordinating mechanisms that help shape employment conditions and labor policy contradicts the traditional belief that an overpowering unilateral decentralizing shift is underway in labor-management interactions. The contributors show that these mechanisms are in fact increasing in the face of intensified pressures, promoting greater flexibility in work organization and working time.
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Tripartism—the national-level interaction among representatives of labor, management, and government—occurs infrequently in the United States. Based on the U.S. experience, then, such interactions might seem irrelevant to economic performance and policymaking. The essays in this volume reveal the falsity of that assumption.
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Harry C. Katz is the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining and Director of the Institute of Collective Bargaining in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He is the coauthor of Converging Divergences and coeditor of Rekindling the Movement, both from Cornell. Wonduck Lee is President of the Korea Labor Institute. Joohee Lee is a Research Fellow at the Korea Labor Institute.
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Although it is not clear what explains the enormous economic success of the United States in the 1990s, no one would claim that national-level dialogue, partnership, and forums through which representatives of labor, management, and the government discuss economic policies played any role in U.S. success because such activities are infrequent and inconsequential in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Although it is not clear what explains the enormous economic success of the United States in the 1990s, no one would claim that national-level dialogue, partnership, and forums through which representatives of labor, management, and the government discuss economic policies played any role in U.S. success because such activities are infrequent and inconsequential in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, East Germany, West German, Big Three, European Union, Workplace Relations Act, Ministry of Labor, United Kingdom, Labor Standards Law, Australian Industrial Relations Commission, General Motors, Works Constitution Act, Australian Workplace Agreements, Deutsche Postgewerkschaft, John Howard, National Wage Case, Western Europe New!
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- Industrial Relations (School Curriculum Industry Project) by Schools Council Industry Project in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Changing Industrial Relations in Europe by Anthony Ferner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Working Under Different Rules (Sla Occasional Papers Series) by Richard B. Freeman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Organized Industrial Relations in Europe: What Future? (Perspectives on Europe) by Colin Crouch in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Changing Employment Relations in Australia Pb by Jim Kitay in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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