This book explores the prospects for the emergence of a distinctly European pattern in industrial relations, in which European-level organizations representing employers and trade unions gain in importance.

Notes on contributors

viii

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Preface

x

INTRODUCTION: GLOBAL TRENDS AND THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT

1

(20)

Wolfgang Lecher

Hans-Wolfgang Platzer

Part I Towards European industrial relations?

21

(100)

1 ON COURSE FOR EUROPEAN LABOUR RELATIONS? THE PROSPECTS FOR THE SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

21

(26)

Dirk Buda

2 NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND THE PROSPECTS FOR EUROPEAN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING: THE VIEW FROM A GERMAN STANDPOINT

47

(18)

Berndt Keller

3 THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING POST-MAASTRICHT

65

(7)

Martin Coen

4 THE PERSISTENCE OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SYSTEMS IN EUROPE

72

(9)

Klaus Armingeon

5 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: PATTERNS, DYNAMICS AND LIMITS OF TRANSNATIONALISATION

81

(40)

Hans-Wolfgang Platzer

Part II Transnational industrial relations and European collective bargaining: views of the actors, preconditions and structures

121

(86)

6 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AT EUROPEAN LEVEL: A SECTORAL EMPLOYERS' VIEWPOINT

121

(12)

Peter Reid

7 EUROPEAN SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: THE VIEW OF THE TUC

133

(6)

David Lea

8 EUROPE AND THE CBI

139

(9)

Pete Burgess

9 EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: AN EMPLOYER'S VIEWPOINT

148

(9)

Alexander Klak

10 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE STANDPOINT OF IG METALL

157

(12)

Michael Blank

11 THE EUROPEAN TRADES UNION CONFEDERATION

169

(11)

Willi Buschak

Volker Kallenbach

12 EUROPEAN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AT SECTORAL LEVEL: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE EUROPEAN METALWORKERS' FEDERATION

180

(8)

Barbara Gerstenberger-Sztana

Bert Thierron

13 THE EUROPEAN CENTRE OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES (CEEP)

188

(6)

Werner Ellerkmann

14 THE UNION OF INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATIONS IN EUROPE - UNICE

194

(13)

Renate Hornung-Draus

Part III European Works councils: European industrial relations at company level

207

(48)

15 EUROPEAN WORKS COUNCILS: AN ASSESSMENT OF FRENCH INITIATIVES

207

(16)

Udo Rehfeldt

16 EUROPEAN WORKS COUNCILS: THE ROLE OF THE NEGOTIATED OPTION

223

(11)

Paul Marginson

17 EUROPEAN WORKS COUNCILS: EXPERIENCES AND PERSEPCTIVES

234

(21)

Wolfgang Lecher

Part IV USA-Japan-Europe: a trilateral comparison

255

(42)

18 US LABOUR RELATIONS AND THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AREA

255

(15)

Christoph Scherrer

19 THE DEBATES ON THE `SOCIAL DIMENSION' IN THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

270

(15)

Norbert Malanowski

20 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN JAPAN: A CHALLENGE FOR EUROPE

285

(12)

Wolfgang Lecher

Index

297

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