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"e;Labour relations in the public service are undergoing a transformation, possibly more profound than the public sector. The concurrent effect of economic, technological and social pressures are challenging the very concept of public service ...

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This work presents the discussion highlights and papers from the 28-29 April 1997 Conference held by the Euro-Japan Institute for Law and Business in Leuven-Belgium.The work from this lively, focused conference covers the most significant recently...

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This volume provides a comparative overview of the ongoing changes in the legal regulation of industrial relations in the Central and Eastern European countries. It discusses the current transformation and development taking place in Bulgaria, Cro...

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Proceedings of New York University 50th Annual Conference on LaborPrivate-sector unionization has been in a period of dramatic decline. While much scholarship has sought to explain this development and has called for stronger legal protection of u...

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This volume contains papers presented at the 49th Annual Conference on Labor held at New York University. This long-standing conference brings together government officials; representatives of companies, labor unions, and employees; lawyers; and h...

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The role of state or the function of labour law during industrialization in Asian countries is of utmost importance when examining how Asian labour laws differ from European or American labour law models and whether or not any common characteristi...

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Substantial progress has been made in the last 15 years in the areas of European economic, social and monetary integration, aided by social dialogue on employment and industrial relations at the international level. To be truly effective, the soci...

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This book aims to review and discuss the disability policies that have developed in six Western countries in recent years. What have been the major changes? Have the disability policies of these countries become more similar in the course of the 1...

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It is widely assumed today that the `welfare state' is contracting or retrenching as an effect of the close scrutiny to which entitlement to social security benefits is being subjected in most developed countries. In this book fifteen authorities ...

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Because labour and social security issues have arisen in many disparate ways since the inception of the European Communities, there is an increasing need for a consistent classification of European law in this area. This groundbreaking book at las...

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The law of dependent work relations in contemporary Hellas combines a number of historical trends, including a unique communal and mercantile collectivism that has flourished for many centuries and survived the Turkish occupation. The country's ve...

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At the intersection of the private sphere of the household and the public sphere of the labour market and paid work lie four essential human realities: pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and childrearing. Do these factors make women unattractiv...

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The eighteen essays in this volume concentrate on the issues surrounding workers' participation, the area of industrial relations uppermost in Marco Biagi's thinking at the time of his assassination in March 2002. The trend toward ever greater emp...

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More and more social security systems influence each other. Governments, policy makers and academics have become very interested in the way various social security systems approach particular problems, such as an ageing society and the policy to r...

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Despite all the best efforts of scholars and policymakers in both camps, globalisation and social security seem to be growing farther and farther apart at an alarming rate. The question of why open market economics is so inimical to the personal s...

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While it can be said that the use of collective labour agreements has greatly expanded during the last decade - witness their growing application in the public sector, and their introduction in many post-communist countries - it is hard to deny th...

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Sexual harassment is the fastest-growing category of employment litigation in the United States. At the root of recent class actions against several major corporations and the subject of three significant Supreme Court decisions during 1998, sexua...

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International Labour Standards: The Case of Freedom to Strike

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Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations

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Workers' participation continues to be an important and much debated, even contested, subject in industrial relations and human resource management. It is also a topic which evolves as the labour force becomes more educated, the economy more inter...

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This publication gives an overview of the criteria of the existence of an employment relationship in the following 10 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands New Zealand, and Scotland.

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Recorded in this volume are some papers presented at an international symposium in comparative industrial relations held in Bologna on 11 January 1991, organized by SINNEA, research and training institute, in collaboration with The John Hopkins Un...

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Even in countries which regard themselves as model democracies, such as the United States of America, the situation at the workplace may be entirely different with regard to the basic freedoms and equal treatment.In the USA, which is a genuine dem...

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The social security systems that, perhaps more than any other governmental programmes, have characterized the development of industrial societies are under siege. On the threshold of the twenty-first century, the future of social insurance is unce...

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Since Maastricht, there has been a concerted effort at the EU level to forge a fair and mutually responsible legal relationship between labour and management. What is sought is a legal framework for labour relations that will protect-and even nour...

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As multi-national enterprises move into the world's largest and most challenging market, new expertise will be required to master the legal, business, and strategic issues they will face. Daniel C.K. Chow, an American attorney with on-the-ground e...

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Labour under the Apartheid Regime

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Labour, industrial relations and HRM specialists in Europe and elsewhere will watch with great interest the course of developments growing out of the EC directive on information and consultation rights of employees. Taken in conjunction with the E...

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From Rights to Management presents a powerful and thoroughly documented new thesis about the transformation of the concept of work during the period 1970-2000. The authors remind us of what we now easily forget: that, not so long ago, the right of...

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When we speak of "e;legal language,"e; we refer to a mode of communication that works hard to convey a degree of precision that clearly establishes the extent and limits of rights and obligations between parties. This endeavour must strive...

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