This review gives a multidisciplinary overview of work-life research in the Nordic countries (with the exception of Iceland). While concentrating on the most important institutes in these countries, it also includes details ...

Although there has been a revival of interest in comparative industrial relations analysis, much of the current debate continues to juxtapose convergent and divergent trajectories and search for factors which might explain ...

Industrial relations issues have recently become critical to the survival of airlines and the structure of the industry in Europe. The author analyses the impact of deregulation and deep economic recession on the traditionally ...

The argument that western Europe is moving from `Fordism' towards `post-Fordism', like Kerr's `industrialism' thesis, assumes that welfare systems are strongly determined by industrial relations factors: the balance of ...

This article highlights the absence of explicit reference to training for European works councillors in both the 1994 Directive and its transposed form in national legislation. Analysis of `Article 13' voluntary agreements ...

It is commonly argued that national economic performance is enhanced by a `surplus' of workers with extensive and well-developed skills, and that this is best achieved by a training system such as that in Germany, where ...

Industrial relations are widely regulated by law in France, while the British system is essentially voluntaristic. More broadly, the structures, strategies and ideologies of social actors in the two countries differ ...

Using data from three European countries - Sweden, The Netherlands and Britain - and a period of about one hundred years, this article charts and explains the development of trade union structure. Although the character ...