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As more and more corporations operate around the globe, the development of an international perspective on industrial relations becomes increasingly urgent. Toward that end, the contributors to Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge examine the workplace itself. On the basis of ethnographic case studies and comparative data, they conclude that global economic forces and transnational corporations are, indeed, driving industrial relations initiatives. However, national and workplace cultures, as well as state policies, still strongly affect the ways in which cooperation and conflict are negotiated on the shop floor
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Introduction The Workplace and Labor Regulation in Comparative Perspective / Edwards, P. K. / Belanger, Jacques / Haiven, Larry -- 1.A Comparison of National Regimes of Labor Regulation and the Problem of the Workplace / Edwards, P. K. -- 2. Job Control under Different Labor Relations Regimes: A Comparison of Canada and Great Britain / Bélanger, Jacques -- 3.Workplace Discipline in International Comparative Perspective / Haiven, Larry -- 4. Shopfloor Relations at U.S. and Canadian Plants of an Automotive Parts Supplier, 1936-1988 / Herzenberg, Stephen -- 5. Bargaining Regimes and the Social Reorganization of Production: The Case of General Motors in Austria and Germany / Shire, Karen -- 6.New Technology and the Process of Labor Regulation: An International Perspective / Smith, Anthony E. -- 7.Conflict and Compliance: The Workplace Politics of a Disk-Drive Factory in Singapore / Kay, Chung Yuen -- 8. The New International Division of Labor and Its Impact on Unions A Case Study of High-Tech Mexican Export Production / Shatken, Harley -- 9. Patterns of Workplace Relations in the Global Corporation: Toward Convergence? / Frenkel, Stephen -- Conclusion: Globalization, National Systems, and the Future of Workplace Industrial Relations / Haiven, Larry / Edwards, P. K. / Bélanger, Jacques -- Notes -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index