Employment relations in a changing world economy / edited by Richard Locke, Thomas Kochan, Michael Piore.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Limits of diffusion : recent developments in industrial relations and human resource practices / Marc Weinstein and Thomas Kochan -- Change and continuity in British industrial relations : "Strategic Choice" or muddling through"? / Keith Sisson -- Managed decentralization? Recent trends in Australian industrial relations and human resource policies / Russell Lansbury and John Niland -- Developments in industrial relations and human resource practices in Canada : An update from the 1980s / Noah Meltz ans Anil Verma -- Between voluntarism and industrialization : industrial relations and human resource practices in Italy / Ida Regalia and Marino Regini -- Inertial choices : An overview of Spanish human resources, practices and policies / Victor Pérez-Díaz and Juan Carlos Rodríguez -- Industrial relation and human resources in France / Jean Saglio -- Continuity and change in the "German Model" of industrial relations / Martin Baethge and Harald Wolf -- Swedish model : demise or reconfiguration? / Andrew Martin -- Social democratic order under pressure : Norwegian employment relations in the eighties / Karl Henrik...[and others] -- Developments in industrial relations and human resource practices in Japan / Conclusion : The transformation of industrial relations? A cross-national review of the evidence / Richard Locke and Thomas Kochan.