Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialized Market Economies

Comparativism is no longer a purely academic exercise but has increasingly become an urgent necessity for industrial relations and legal practitioners, due to the growth of multinational enterprises and the impact of international and regional organizations aspiring to harmonize rules. The growing need for comprehensive, up-to-date and readily available information on labour law and industrial relations in different countries led to the publication of the International Encyclopedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations, in which almost 60 international and national monographs have been published to date. This book, Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialized Market Economies, goes a step further than the Encyclopedia inasmuch as most of the chapters provide comparative and integrated thematic treatment. Its aim is to describe the salient characteristics and trends in labour law and industrial relations in the contemporary world. Encouraged by the warm reception of the first five editions, we hope that the sixth edition will also serve as a textbook and reference to facilitate the task of teachers and students of comparative labour law and industrial relations. We hope, too, that the book will provide labour lawyers with the necessary insights to cope with a world which is increasingly international.