Research Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations

Edited by Michael Barry, Professor, Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources, Griffith University and Adrian Wilkinson, Distinguished Professor, Department of Management, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia

• Contents:PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Re-examining Comparative Employment Relations Michael Barry and Adrian Wilkinson PART II: PERSPECTIVES2. Comparative Employment Relations: Institutional and Neo-institutional TheoriesBruce E. Kaufman3. The Political Economy of Comparative Employment Relations John Kelly4. Legal Origins, Labour Law and the Regulation of Employment Relations Sean Cooney, Peter Gahan and Richard Mitchell5. Cross-cultural StudiesTerence Jackson PART III: PAIRED COUNTRY COMPARISONS6. Employment Relations in Chile and ArgentinaMaurizio Atzeni, Fernando Durán-Palma and Pablo Ghigliani7. Employment Relations in Canada and the US Sara Slinn and Richard W. Hurd8. Employment Relations in China and IndiaFang Lee Cooke9. Employment Relations in the United Kingdom and Republic of IrelandTony Dundon and David G. Collings10. Employment Relations in Japan and KoreaEeHwan Jung11. Employment Relations in Belgium and the NetherlandsHester Houwing, Maarten Keune, Philippe Pochet and Kurt Vandaele12. Employment Relations in Australia and New ZealandNick Wailes13. Employment Relations in South Africa and MozambiqueGeoffrey Wood14. Employment Relations in France and GermanyStefan Zagelmeyer15. Employment Relations in Oil-rich Gulf CountriesKamel Mellahi and Ingo Forstenlechner PART IV: BROADER COMPARATIVE INFLUENCES16. Corporatism Meets Neoliberalism: The Irish and Italian Cases in Comparative PerspectiveLucio Baccaro17. The Role of MNEsDavid G. Collings, Jonathan Lavelle and Patrick Gunnigle18. Regulating Global Capital through Public and Private Codes: An Analysis of International Labour Standards and Corporate Voluntary InitiativesTony RoyleIndex

’This Research Handbook is a highly readable and thought-provoking account of comparative employment relations in current published texts. The breadth and depth of this book are remarkable and it will serve as a very valuable introductory text to students and researchers interested in comparative employment relations and global governance of employment relations.’