TY - BOOK AU - Bamber,Greg AU - Ben-Israel,Ruth AU - Berger,Gerhard AU - Blenk,Werner K. AU - Blyton,Paul AU - Bosch,Gerhard AU - Campbell,Duncan Colin AU - Damachi,Ukandi G. AU - Endruweit,Günter AU - Fashoyin,Tayo AU - Feuille,Peter AU - Gladstone,Alan AU - Hanami,Tadashi AU - Hart,Robert A. AU - Isaac,Joe AU - Kassalow,Everett M. AU - Keller,Berndt K. AU - Kuwahara,Yasuo AU - Landsbury,Russell AU - Lansbury,Russell D. AU - Neal,Alan C. AU - Nollen,Stanley D. AU - Rojot,Jacques AU - Schregle,Johannes AU - Stieber,Jack AU - Summers,Clyde AU - Thompson,Mark AU - Treu,Tiziano AU - Visser,Jelle AU - Weiss,Manfred TI - Current Issues in Labour Relations: An International Perspective SN - 9783110116533 U1 - 331 PY - 2019///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Flextime KW - Industrial management KW - Employee participation KW - Industrial relations KW - Technological innovations KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Contributors --; Introductory --; Chapter I. Technological Change and Labour Relations --; Introduction --; Unions and New Technology --; Employers' Response to Technological Change --; Technological Change in the United States: Unions and Employers in a New Era --; New Technologies and Collective Agreements in the Federal Republic of Germany — The Case of "Rationalisation Protection Agreements" --; New Technology in the Context of Structural Change, with Special Reference to Japan --; Chapter II. Institutional Forms of Workers' Participation, with Special Reference to the Federal Republic of Germany --; Introduction --; The Functioning of Institutionalised Forms of Workers' Participation — Seen from a Social Science Perspective --; Workers' Participation in the Federal Republic of Germany in an International Perspective --; An American Perspective of the German Model of Worker Participation --; Co-Determination in the Federal Republic of Germany: An External Perspective from the United Kingdom --; Chapter III. New Trends in Working Time Arrangements --; Introduction --; Working Time Reductions and the European Work-Sharing Debate --; Worksharing and Labor Market Flexibility: A Comparative Institutional Analysis --; Reducing Annual Working Time and Improving Schedule Flexibility — Causes, Effects, Controversies --; Working Time Reductions and Employment: The Discrepancy between Macroeconomic and Macroeconomic Research Findings --; New Working Time Arrangements in the Netherlands --; Changes in Work Time in the United States --; Chapter IV. Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Service Labour Relations --; Introduction --; Unions and Employers in Government in the United States: More Conflict than Co-Operation --; Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations: The Federal Republic of Germany --; From Compromise to Resistance: Public Sector Industrial Relations in Canada --; Labour Relations in the Nigerian Civil Service --; Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations in Australia --; Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations in Israel --; Co-Operation and Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations in Japan --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects --; Backmatter; restricted access UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849233 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110849233 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110849233/original ER -