PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Change and Continuity in Industrial Relations - Russell D Lansbury and Chrissie Verevis An Introduction PART TWO: THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE STATE IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS The Role of the State in Industrial Relations - Janice R Bellace State Regulation of Unions and Collective Bargaining - Roy J Adams An International Assessment of Determinants and Consequences A New Province for Law and Order - Braham Dabscheck The Australian Experiment With Industrial Tribunals The Role of the State in Industrial Relations - Se-il Park The Case of Korea The Role of the State in Industrial Relations in Japan - Kazuo Sugeno The State's Guiding Role in Socioeconomic Development PART THREE: TRADE UNIONISM AND THE FUTURE Trade Unionism in the Future - Edward Davis Trade Unions in the Future - Gideon Ben-Israel and Hanna Fisher Organizational Strategies in a Changing Environment Local and Global - Olle Hammarstrom Trade Unions in the Future Union Organisation - Jelle Visser Why Countries Differ On the Future of Trade Unionism in the United States - Kirsten S Wever PART FOUR: HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Human Resources Management - John Purcell Implications for Teaching, Theory, Research, and Practice in Industrial Relations Managing Transformational Change - Tom A Kochan and Lee Dyer The Role of Human Resource Professionals The Industrial Relations of Skills Formation - John Mathews Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in European Companies - Marino Regini The Take-Up of Human Resource Management by Mainstream Companies - John Storey Key Lessons from Research PART FIVE: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION Myth and Reality - Amira Galin Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in the Transition to Democracy The Impact of Industrial Relations on Political Transformation in Poland - Ludwik Florek Political Changes and the Transformation of Industrial Relations in Hungary - Lajos Hethy Decolonization Without Independence - David A Levin and Stephen Chiu Political Change and Trade Unionism in Hong Kong Strategy and Opportunism - Clive Thompson Trade Unions as Agents for Change in South Africa PART SIX: LABOR MARKET POLICIES AND PRACTICES The Macro/Micro Interface in Labor Market Policy and Practice - Eng Fong Pang Corporate Pay Policies and the Internationalization of Markets - William Brown and Janet Walsh Industrial Relations and Labour Policies in European Countries - Carlo Dell'Aringa and Manuela Samek Lodovici Who Gets What? Institutions, Human Capital, and Black Boxes as Determinants of Relative Wages in Australia and the United States - Robert Gregory and Anne Daly Part-Time and Other Nonstandard Forms of Employment - Isik Urla Zeytinoglu Why Are They Considered Appropriate for Women? PART SEVEN: CHANGE IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT Change and the International Exchange of Ideas - John R Niland