Workers, Firms and Union

The Editors: The editors are mainly industrial sociologists. Roderick Martin is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Glasgow. He formerly taught at Oxford and Imperial College, London. Akihiro Ishikawa is an industrial sociologist at Chuo University in Tokyo. Professor Csaba Mako teaches at the Budapest University of Economics and Professor Consoli at the University of Rome.

• Contents: A. Ishikawa / R. Martin: Introduction - E. Fricke / W. Fricke: Changing Attitudes and Conditions in German Working Life - F. Consoli: Work Involvement and Professional Challenge: a New Trend in Italian Industrial Relations - M. Maurice: French Employees in Industrial Restructuring and Employment Crisis - A. Ishikawa / T. Shiraishi: Japanese Employees' Attitudes in Transition: 1984-1994 - C. Edling / C. le Grand: The Swedish Model in Transition: a Firm Level Perspective - E. Asp: Finnish Trade Unions and the Quality of Life - B. Cichomski / J. Kulpinska / W. Morawski: Employment, Commitment and Trade Unions: Continuity or Change in Poland 1985-1995 - C. Mako / P. Novoszath / A. Vereb: Changing Patterns of Employment and Employee Attitudes at the Firm Level: the Hungarian Case - Z. Janata: Formation of a New Pattern of Industrial Relations and Workers' Views on Their Unions: the Czech Case - S. Vehovszka: Enterprise Transformation at Plant Level: the Slovak Case - M. Macur / V. Rus: Return to Managerial Paternalism? - In the Slovenian Context - H. X. Wang: Employees' Attitudes towards the Union in Chinese State Firms - C. Mako: Some Implications for Trade Unions.