Labor Relations in a Globalizing World

Harry C. Katz is the Interim Provost of Cornell University and the Dean and Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). He is coauthor of The Transformation of American Industrial Relations, Second Edition, and Converging Divergences and coeditor of Rekindling the Movement, all from Cornell, among many other books. Thomas A. Kochan is the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Professor of Work and Employment Research and Engineering Systems, and Co-Director of the Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research at MIT. He is coauthor of Healing Together, Up in the Air, and The Transformation of American Industrial Relations, Second Edition, all from Cornell, and author or editor of many other books. Alexander J. S. Colvin is Professor of Labor Relations and the Martin F. Scheinman Professor of Conflict Resolution at the ILR School, Cornell University and the Associate Director of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution. He is coauthor with Harry C. Katz and Thomas A. Kochan of An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations, Fourth Edition.

This excellent comparative relations text written by three masters of the Wisconsin 'institutional' tradition analyzes employment through the perspective of industrial relations.... Readers will benefit from the insights the authors have derived from their own interventions as consultants and activists. Recommended for serious upper-division students and graduate students in labor relations, human resource management, sociology, and economics.- D. C. Jacobs (CHOICE)

• PART 1. The Strategic Level of Labor Relations1. A Framework for Analyzing Labor Relations2. Labor, Management, and Government Interactions3. The Law and Legal Systems4. The Role of the Economic, Technological, and Demographic EnvironmentsPART 2. The Middle (Functional) Level of Labor Relations5. Employment Systems—Informal, Bureaucratic, and Human Resource Management6. The Negotiations Process and Structures7. Dispute Resolution ProceduresPART 3. The Workplace Level of Labor Relations8. Workplace Labor Relations9. Employment OutcomesPART 4. Special Topics10. Labor Relations in the Public Sector11. Global Pressures: Multinational Corporations, International Unionism, and NGOs12. Economic Development Strategies and PoliciesGlossaryIndex