National Labour Relations in Internationalized Markets

Franz Traxler is Professor of Industrial Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna where he has been since 1992. From 1993 to 1997 he was also the President of the Austrian Sociological Association and Consultant of the OECD, Paris, and the ILO, Geneva. Previous academic positions have included Senior Lecturer of the Federal Academy of Public Administration (1985-92) and Assistant Professor, University of Economics, Vienna (1976-85).Sabine Blaschke is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna. She has previously been a Research Assistant at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (1992-5) and Junior Assistant Professore at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna (1995-7).Bernhard Kittel is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna. He has previously been both a Research Assistant (1994-6) and a Junior Assistant Professor (1995-6) within this same institute.

• PART ONE: THE THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS ; PART TWO: THE ORGANIZATION OF INTERESTS: PATTERNS AND DYNAMICS ; PART THREE: WAGE REGULATION AND BARGAINING ; PART FOUR: LABOUR RELATIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ; PART FIVE: INSTEAD OF CONVERGENCE: NEOLIBERALISM AND LEAN CORPORATISM AS ALTERNATIVES

Traxler and his colleagues have set a benchmark for the close and unreleting analysis of data ... some important lessons emerge