..., 2000 ; Rifkin, 2000 ; Ruskola, 2005 ; Slater and Tonkiss, 2001 ; Watts, 1999). For these scholars, there really is seemingly no alternative to the market. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Labour market Mixed economies Industrial relations Urban areas Rural areas England...

... Labour market Industrial relations This paper applies standard microeconomic theory used to analyze imperfect competition in the product market to union behavior. We focus on a two union closed‐shop equilibrium and study the effect of wage constraints that prevent the labor market to achieve...

... and growth are approached as being dependent on the development of society and vice versa. The empirical relation between economic openness of a country and the structure of its industrial relations is analysed in relation to different economic outcomes. Special attention is paid to the question whether...

..., a distinguished scholar in the area of industrial relations in Japan. The book contains a useful appendix presenting major sources of information related to industrial relations in Japan. It lists a number of journals and statistical publications in the field and indicates sources available in English, for those...

.... Mari   Sako , Hiroki   Sato Editors . Japanese Labour and Management in Transition . Routledge , 1997 . © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> Industrial relations Japan Human resource management Personnel policy Part two, also comprising seven chapters, looks at the role...

... studies. Economists Empirical studies Family life History Industrial relations Frédéric Le Play’s thought, as well as that of other classical authors in the nineteenth century, was developed in the context of the economic, political, demographic and cultural transformations produced...

... Industrial relations Pricing policy Pay This contribution is an examination of the impact of the agreement negotiated between the Australian Labour Party and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), known as the Accord, on the conduct of prices and incomes policies as well as related matters...

...‐standing fiction that the corporation is a “legal person” Economics Industrial relations Industry Ownership Social economics Work The employee is in fact not a conduit of responsibility; the employee inexorably remains a de facto responsible person. The employees,together with any working...