Employee Relations: Volume 40 Issue 4

Industrial relations in twenty-first century Europe

Holm-Detlev Köhler

What future for industrial relations in Europe?

Richard Hyman

The purpose of this paper is to perform a systematic cross-country comparison of key features of industrial relations in Europe in a context where consolidated post-war…

Denmark: the long-lasting class compromise

Jens Lind, Herman Knudsen

The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical examination of industrial relations in Denmark.

The establishing of a European industrial relations system: Still under construction or chasing a chimera?

Sergio González Begega, Mona Aranea

The purpose of this paper is to examine European Union (EU) industrial relations in their development over time. It describes and analyzes their main constituent parts, which are…

Industrial relations in France: From the underdevelopment of collective bargaining to the failure of neocorporatist concertation

Udo Rehfeldt

The purpose of this paper is to present the actors, institutions and changing rules of the French system of industrial relations (IR). It questions whether the traditional view of…

Seven decades of industrial relations in Germany: Stability and change through joint learning processes

Walther Müller-Jentsch

The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the development of industrial relations (IR) in Germany since the end of the Second World War and discusses the current challenges…

Industrial relations in Italy in the twenty-first century

Valeria Pulignano, Domenico Carrieri, Lucio Baccaro

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the developments which have characterized Italy’s industrial relations from post-war Fordism to neo-liberal hegemony and recent crisis…

Industrial relations in Poland: Historical background, institutional evolution and research trends

Jan Czarzasty, Adam Mrozowicki

The purpose of this paper is to examine the interrelations between the evolution of industrial relations (IR) and IR research in Poland in the historical context. Two questions…

International actors and trade unions during postsocialism and after: the case of Romania

Dragoș Adăscăliței, Ștefan Guga

The purpose of this paper is to explain why, in spite having a relatively powerful labour movement at the start of the economic transformation, Romania ended up with a highly…

Slovenia: neo-corporatism under the neo-liberal turn

Miroslav Stanojevic

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the formation and development of Slovenia’s neo-corporatist industrial relations system in the 1990s, and its change which overlaps with…

Industrial relations in Spain – strong conflicts, weak actors and fragmented institutions

Holm-Detlev Köhler

The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the development of industrial relations (IR) in Spain since the democratic transition and analyses the current dilemmas of its social…