Description
This introduction to the changing nature and context of industrial relations in contemporary Europe shows how different national systems of industrial relations offer varying models of relations between employers and workers as well as between states, companies, markets and interest organizations. The dynamics of change in individual countries and in specific aspects are reviewed, in particular: the significance of the political climate of neo-liberalism; technological change; the international context of European industrial relations; the transformation of Eastern Europe; and developments in the Eastern Union.
