... an interesting set of papers ... manages to maintain a strong degree of unity throughout ... Politically and empirically, this is a very useful book.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. The politics of labor in late-industrializing and post-socialist economies: new challenges in a global age ; PART I. LABOR IN LATE-INDUSTRIALIZING ECONOMIES ; 2. Partisan loyalty and union competition: macroeconomic adjustment and industrial restructuring in Mexico ; 3. The cost of incorporation: labor institutions, industrial restructuring, and new trade union strategies in India and Pakistan ; 4. Network ties and labor flexibility in Brazil and Mexico: a tale of two automobile factories ; 5. Globalization, social partnership and industrial relations in Ireland ; 6. Globalization and the paradigm shift in Japanese industrial relations ; PART II. LABOR IN POST-SOCIALIST ECONOMIES ; 7. Transition, globalization, and changing industrial relations in China ; 8. Privatization, Labor Politics, and the Firm in Post-Soviet Russia: Non-Market Norms, Market Institutions and the Soviet Legacy ; 9. Globalization in one country: East Germany between moral economy and political economy ; 10. Corporatist renaissance in postcommunist Central Europe? ; CONCLUSION ; Institutional legacies and the transformation of labor: late-industrializing and post-socialist economies in comparative-historical perspective

... an interesting set of papers ... manages to maintain a strong degree of unity throughout ... Politically and empirically, this is a very useful book.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. The politics of labor in late-industrializing and post-socialist economies: new challenges in a global age ; PART I. LABOR IN LATE-INDUSTRIALIZING ECONOMIES ; 2. Partisan loyalty and union competition: macroeconomic adjustment and industrial restructuring in Mexico ; 3. The cost of incorporation: labor institutions, industrial restructuring, and new trade union strategies in India and Pakistan ; 4. Network ties and labor flexibility in Brazil and Mexico: a tale of two automobile factories ; 5. Globalization, social partnership and industrial relations in Ireland ; 6. Globalization and the paradigm shift in Japanese industrial relations ; PART II. LABOR IN POST-SOCIALIST ECONOMIES ; 7. Transition, globalization, and changing industrial relations in China ; 8. Privatization, Labor Politics, and the Firm in Post-Soviet Russia: Non-Market Norms, Market Institutions and the Soviet Legacy ; 9. Globalization in one country: East Germany between moral economy and political economy ; 10. Corporatist renaissance in postcommunist Central Europe? ; CONCLUSION ; Institutional legacies and the transformation of labor: late-industrializing and post-socialist economies in comparative-historical perspective

... an interesting set of papers ... manages to maintain a strong degree of unity throughout ... Politically and empirically, this is a very useful book.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. The politics of labor in late-industrializing and post-socialist economies: new challenges in a global age ; PART I. LABOR IN LATE-INDUSTRIALIZING ECONOMIES ; 2. Partisan loyalty and union competition: macroeconomic adjustment and industrial restructuring in Mexico ; 3. The cost of incorporation: labor institutions, industrial restructuring, and new trade union strategies in India and Pakistan ; 4. Network ties and labor flexibility in Brazil and Mexico: a tale of two automobile factories ; 5. Globalization, social partnership and industrial relations in Ireland ; 6. Globalization and the paradigm shift in Japanese industrial relations ; PART II. LABOR IN POST-SOCIALIST ECONOMIES ; 7. Transition, globalization, and changing industrial relations in China ; 8. Privatization, Labor Politics, and the Firm in Post-Soviet Russia: Non-Market Norms, Market Institutions and the Soviet Legacy ; 9. Globalization in one country: East Germany between moral economy and political economy ; 10. Corporatist renaissance in postcommunist Central Europe? ; CONCLUSION ; Institutional legacies and the transformation of labor: late-industrializing and post-socialist economies in comparative-historical perspective