Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introductory / Gladstone, Alan -- Chapter I. Labour Market Flexibility and New Employment Patterns -- Introduction / Wheeler, Hoyt N. -- Developments of Working-Time Patterns and Flexibility / Treu, Tiziano -- Flexibility and Contracts of Employment: Western Europe / Avilés, Antonio Ojeda -- Have Pay Systems Become More Flexible in Western Europe in the 1980s? / Marsden, David -- Job Flexibility: International Comparisons and Research Propositions / Bamber, Greg J. -- Job Protection and Flexibility in Western Europe / Dercksen, Willem -- Labour Market Flexibility in Japan / Koshiro, Kazutoshi -- Labour Market Flexibility: The US Case in a Comparative Framework / Kassalow, Everett M. -- Labour Market Flexibility in the USSR / Gramatzki, Hans-Erich -- Chapter II. Structural Change and Industrial Relations Strategies -- Introduction A Comparative View of United States and Canadian Industrial Relations: A Strategic Choice Perspective / Rojot, Jacques / Kochan, Thomas A. / Verma, Anil -- Structural Change and Industrial Relations: The United Kingdom / Beaumont, P. B. -- Structural Change and Industrial Relations: Australia / Niland, John / Spooner, Keri -- Structural Change and Industrial Relations: Japan / Shimada, Haruo -- Structural Change and Industrial Relations: The Federal Republic of Germany / Weiss, Manfred -- The Coming Divergence in Dutch Industrial Relations / Visser, Jelle -- Chapter III. Aspirations and Expectations of a New Labour Force and Implications for Industrial Relations -- Introduction / Eyraud, François -- Collective Bargaining and Economic Change / Eyraud, François -- Labour Law and the New Labour Force / Hepple, Bob -- Changes in Labor Relations and the New Labor Force in U.S. Productive Systems / Craypo, Charles -- Implications for Industrial Relations of the New Labour Force in Israel / Galin, Amira -- White Collar and Human Resource Management: A Study of Computer Software Workers in Japan / Nitta, Michio -- The Aspirations of Building Workers in Quebec / Sexton, Jean -- Aspirations and Expectations of Migrants / Brosnan, Peter -- Chapter IV. Equity and Equality of Treatment in Employment -- Introduction / Ben-Israel, Ruth -- International Labour Standards: The Case of Equal Pay – ILO Perspective / Blenk, Werner K. / Ancel-Lenners, Jacqueline -- International Labour Standards: The Case of Equal Pay – European Community Perspective / Landau, Eve C. -- Affirmative Action, Employment Equity and Visible Minorities in Canada / Jain, Harish C. -- From Equal Pay to Equal Value in Australia: Myth or Reality? / Stackpool Moore, Jane -- Occupational Equality in France: How Effective is the Law? / Piganiol, Claude -- Equal Pay and Equal Opportunity Issues in Japan / Suzuki, Hiromasa -- Parental Rights and Employment Flexibility in Sweden / Näsman, Elisabet / Falkenberg, Eva -- Parental Rights and Employment Flexibility in the Netherlands / Hootsmans, Helen M. -- Epilogue. Labour Relations in a Changing Environment: A General Overview / Blanpain, Roger -- Subject Index -- Name Index -- Backmatterweiterlesen