Carola Frege is Professor of International Employment Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.John Kelly is Professor of Industrial Relations at Birkbeck, University of London.

"Despite a liberalizing global economy, nations retain distinctive labor-market institutions such as human resource practices, labor unions, and regulatory regimes. This volume contains the very best comparative research on these national systems. It is incisive, timely, and well organized. It can serve as a research handbook for scholars as well as a text for students in the professional and social sciences. It is outstanding."Sanford M. Jacoby, Distinguished Professor of Management and Public Affairs UCLA, USA"Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy is a superb collection that is truly global in scope, giving due regard to employment relations in emerging economies alongside those of the Global North. It provides the best available treatment of comparative employment relations and is an essential text for anyone teaching or studying in this area."Edmund Heery, Professor of Employment Relations, Cardiff Business School, UK"This book provides a new and refreshing approach to the study of comparative employment relations -- one that locates developments in both advanced and transitional countries within the broader political economy of global capitalism, but without losing sight of the continuing importance of national level differences and the institutional traditions that underpin them."Professor John Godard, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Canada

• Part 1 Comparative employment relations1. Introduction: global challenges at work - John Kelly and Carola Frege2 Theoretical perspectives on comparative employment relations - Carola Frege and John KellyPart 2 Employment relations challenges in comparative perspective3 Globalization and employment relations – Sarosh Kuruvilla4 Job quality, work intensity and working time: some cross-national comparisons on the experience of work - Patrick McGovern 5 Inequalities and employment relations - Jenny Rodriguez and Jill Rubery 6 Labour migration - Carola Frege7 Work and employment practices in comparative perspective - John Godard8 Employment relations and economic performance - Damian Grimshaw and Susan Hayter9 Employment relations, welfare and politics - Anke HasselPart 3 Regulating the employment relationship10 Individual employee rights at work - Cynthia Estlund 11 Collective representation at work: institutions and dynamics - Richard Hyman and Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick12 Regional regulation: the EU - Paul Marginson13 International regulation: standards and voluntary practices - Michael FichterPart 4 Employment regulation in national contexts 14 The United States - Gerald Friedman and John Godard 15 The United Kingdom - John Kelly16 France - Nick Parsons 17 Germany - Martin Behrens18 Sweden - Torsten Svensson 19 Japan - D. Hugh Whittaker 20 Brazil - Mark S. Anner and João Paulo Cândia Veiga21 Russia - Sarah Ashwin and Irina Kozina22 India - Vidu Badigannavar and Dona Ghosh 23 China - Mingwei Liu 24 South Africa - Roger Southall

Carola Frege is Professor of International Employment Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.John Kelly is Professor of Industrial Relations at Birkbeck, University of London.

"Despite a liberalizing global economy, nations retain distinctive labor-market institutions such as human resource practices, labor unions, and regulatory regimes. This volume contains the very best comparative research on these national systems. It is incisive, timely, and well organized. It can serve as a research handbook for scholars as well as a text for students in the professional and social sciences. It is outstanding."Sanford M. Jacoby, Distinguished Professor of Management and Public Affairs UCLA, USA"Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy is a superb collection that is truly global in scope, giving due regard to employment relations in emerging economies alongside those of the Global North. It provides the best available treatment of comparative employment relations and is an essential text for anyone teaching or studying in this area."Edmund Heery, Professor of Employment Relations, Cardiff Business School, UK"This book provides a new and refreshing approach to the study of comparative employment relations -- one that locates developments in both advanced and transitional countries within the broader political economy of global capitalism, but without losing sight of the continuing importance of national level differences and the institutional traditions that underpin them."Professor John Godard, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Canada

• Part 1 Comparative employment relations1. Introduction: global challenges at work - John Kelly and Carola Frege2 Theoretical perspectives on comparative employment relations - Carola Frege and John KellyPart 2 Employment relations challenges in comparative perspective3 Globalization and employment relations – Sarosh Kuruvilla4 Job quality, work intensity and working time: some cross-national comparisons on the experience of work - Patrick McGovern 5 Inequalities and employment relations - Jenny Rodriguez and Jill Rubery 6 Labour migration - Carola Frege7 Work and employment practices in comparative perspective - John Godard8 Employment relations and economic performance - Damian Grimshaw and Susan Hayter9 Employment relations, welfare and politics - Anke HasselPart 3 Regulating the employment relationship10 Individual employee rights at work - Cynthia Estlund 11 Collective representation at work: institutions and dynamics - Richard Hyman and Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick12 Regional regulation: the EU - Paul Marginson13 International regulation: standards and voluntary practices - Michael FichterPart 4 Employment regulation in national contexts 14 The United States - Gerald Friedman and John Godard 15 The United Kingdom - John Kelly16 France - Nick Parsons 17 Germany - Martin Behrens18 Sweden - Torsten Svensson 19 Japan - D. Hugh Whittaker 20 Brazil - Mark S. Anner and João Paulo Cândia Veiga21 Russia - Sarah Ashwin and Irina Kozina22 India - Vidu Badigannavar and Dona Ghosh 23 China - Mingwei Liu 24 South Africa - Roger Southall

Carola Frege is Professor of International Employment Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.John Kelly is Professor of Industrial Relations at Birkbeck, University of London.

"Despite a liberalizing global economy, nations retain distinctive labor-market institutions such as human resource practices, labor unions, and regulatory regimes. This volume contains the very best comparative research on these national systems. It is incisive, timely, and well organized. It can serve as a research handbook for scholars as well as a text for students in the professional and social sciences. It is outstanding."Sanford M. Jacoby, Distinguished Professor of Management and Public Affairs UCLA, USA"Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy is a superb collection that is truly global in scope, giving due regard to employment relations in emerging economies alongside those of the Global North. It provides the best available treatment of comparative employment relations and is an essential text for anyone teaching or studying in this area."Edmund Heery, Professor of Employment Relations, Cardiff Business School, UK"This book provides a new and refreshing approach to the study of comparative employment relations -- one that locates developments in both advanced and transitional countries within the broader political economy of global capitalism, but without losing sight of the continuing importance of national level differences and the institutional traditions that underpin them."Professor John Godard, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Canada

• Part 1 Comparative employment relations1. Introduction: global challenges at work - John Kelly and Carola Frege2 Theoretical perspectives on comparative employment relations - Carola Frege and John KellyPart 2 Employment relations challenges in comparative perspective3 Globalization and employment relations – Sarosh Kuruvilla4 Job quality, work intensity and working time: some cross-national comparisons on the experience of work - Patrick McGovern 5 Inequalities and employment relations - Jenny Rodriguez and Jill Rubery 6 Labour migration - Carola Frege7 Work and employment practices in comparative perspective - John Godard8 Employment relations and economic performance - Damian Grimshaw and Susan Hayter9 Employment relations, welfare and politics - Anke HasselPart 3 Regulating the employment relationship10 Individual employee rights at work - Cynthia Estlund 11 Collective representation at work: institutions and dynamics - Richard Hyman and Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick12 Regional regulation: the EU - Paul Marginson13 International regulation: standards and voluntary practices - Michael FichterPart 4 Employment regulation in national contexts 14 The United States - Gerald Friedman and John Godard 15 The United Kingdom - John Kelly16 France - Nick Parsons 17 Germany - Martin Behrens18 Sweden - Torsten Svensson 19 Japan - D. Hugh Whittaker 20 Brazil - Mark S. Anner and João Paulo Cândia Veiga21 Russia - Sarah Ashwin and Irina Kozina22 India - Vidu Badigannavar and Dona Ghosh 23 China - Mingwei Liu 24 South Africa - Roger Southall