Product Description: The service sector has not always received the attention it merits in industrial relations research when set against its enormous economic significance. One factor in this is certainly the highly diverse nature of services. Research attention has also lagged behind long-standing processes of transnationalization undertaken by service sector companies and the challenges these pose for policy and practice in the field of employment relations...read more

Product Description: Over the past decade, European company-level employment regulation has emerged: European Works Councils (EWCs) and trade unions have begun to negotiate company-level collective agreements which have a far-reaching impact across borders on issues as diverse as company restructuring, health and safety, and profit-sharing...read more

Product Description: This study is rooted in an analysis of the establishment of EWCs under Articles 5 and 6 of the 1994 EWC Directive. This is now a mandatory procedure and completes the development of EWCs from bodies set up purely by voluntary negotiation to bodies set up within a binding statutory procedure...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With the establishment of the Social Chapter, 1993 will mark the beginning of a much more comprehensive process of integration than was first envisaged under the rubric of the "Single Market". This new economic environment has enormous implications for trade unions across Europe...read more

Product Description: Roman Rosdolsky investigates the relationship between various versions of Capital and explains the reasons for Marx’s successive reworking.