... only --> Workplace Outsourcing Migrant workers Capitalist systems Transnational companies Trade union recognition Perhaps long before Gorz’s (1982) seminal Farewell to the Working Class many have started wondering where – if anywhere – the once mighty working class went...

... of the transnational corporation, conceived as a political complex with different interests struggling for increased influence and resources. Works councils Transnational companies Industrial relations Decision making Europe The recent revision of the European directive on information and consultation...

... Transnational companies Trade unions in communist countries have long been criticised as a political tool of the ruling party to control the workers, as the unions endeavour to compromise labour interests into state agenda to avoid labour militancy. Under this institutional arrangement, unions...

... proposals for a procedure for transnational collective bargaining, the procedures agreed by the EMF and UNI‐Europa Graphical for the negotiation of company‐wide transnational agreements, and the content of some existing transnational company‐wide agreements. Findings The existence of company‐wide...

... in respectful coexistence, so that there is a difference in group consciousness between migrant workers and their urban counterparts. Industrial relations Transnational companies Trade unions China Market reform has brought changes to the Chinese political economy, including the retrenchment...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Pay policies Transnational companies Senior management Just as the notion of the “great man” theory of leadership has fallen out of favor in that discipline, so is the notion of the “one size fits all” manager gradually dissipating in its hold...