Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance

Dan Coffey is Lecturer in Economics at Leeds University Business School, UK.Carole Thornley is Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the University of Keele, UK.

• 1. Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley Introduction: Across the Policy Divide 2. Christine Oughton Industrial Policy and Economic Development 3. Michael Kitson, Jonathan Michie and Maura Sheehan-Quinn Market, Competition, Cooperation and Innovation 4. Dan Coffey Best Practice Manufacture as Industrial Policy: Lean Production, Competitiveness and Monopoly Capitalism 5. Keith Cowling and Philip R. Tomlinson Industrial Policy, Transnational Corporations and the Problem of 'Hollowing Out' in Japan 6. Carole Thornley Labour Market Policy and Inequality in the UK 7. Francis Green The Problem of British Education Policy as Economic Policy 8. Steve Jefferys, Carole Thornley and Sylvie Contrepois HRM, Commitment Insecurity and Low Pay: Some Indicative Evidence from the European Banking Sector 9. Virginie Perotin and Andrew Robinson Equal Opportunities and Productive Efficiency in the Workplace: Fairness, Employee Participation, and the Firm 10. Dan Coffey Re-assessing Regulation: Productivity, Wage Costs, and Trade Union 'Power' in the Dock 11. Malcolm Sawyer The Private Finance Initiative: A Critical Assessment