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Book SynopsisCompelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a Globalizing World, they draw lessons from the United States and other advanced industrial countries to provide a menu of options for management, labor, and government leaders in emerging countries. They include discussions based in countries such as China, Brazil, India, and South Africa which, given the advanced levels of economic development they have already achieved, are often described as transitional, because the labor relations practices and procedures used in those countries are still in a state of flux.Katz, Kochan, and Colvin analyze how labor relations functions in emerging countries in a manner that is useful to practitioners, policymakers, and academics. They take accou
Trade Review
This excellent comparative relations text written by three masters of the Wisconsin 'institutional' tradition analyzes employment through the perspective of industrial relations.... Readers will benefit from the insights the authors have derived from their own interventions as consultants and activists. Recommended for serious upper-division students and graduate students in labor relations, human resource management, sociology, and economics.
-- D. C. Jacobs * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsPART 1. The Strategic Level of Labor Relations
1. A Framework for Analyzing Labor Relations
2. Labor, Management, and Government Interactions
3. The Law and Legal Systems
4. The Role of the Economic, Technological, and Demographic EnvironmentsPART 2. The Middle (Functional) Level of Labor Relations
5. Employment Systems—Informal, Bureaucratic, and Human Resource Management
6. The Negotiations Process and Structures
7. Dispute Resolution ProceduresPART 3. The Workplace Level of Labor Relations
8. Workplace Labor Relations
9. Employment OutcomesPART 4. Special Topics
10. Labor Relations in the Public Sector
11. Global Pressures: Multinational Corporations, International Unionism, and NGOs
12. Economic Development Strategies and PoliciesGlossary
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