Transnational Industrial Relations: The Impact of Multi-National Corporations and Economic Regionalism on Industrial Relations

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Basic Trends Affecting the Location of Decision-Making Powers in Industrial Relations....Pages 5-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Towards Research on and Development of Nations, Unions and Firms as Worldwide Institutions....Pages 21-50
The Strength of International Regionalism....Pages 51-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The Challenge of Multi-National Corporations and Regional Economic Integration to the Trade Unions, their Structure and their International Activities....Pages 70-96
International Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining....Pages 97-108
Factors Influencing the Organisation and Style of Management and their Effect on the Pattern of Industrial Relations in Multi-National Corporations....Pages 109-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Multi-National Corporation, International Union and International Collective Bargaining: A Case Study of the Political, Social, and Economic Implications of the 1967 U.A.W.-Chrysler Agreement....Pages 137-172
Multi-National Corporations, Trade Unions and Industrial Relations: A Case Study of Jamaica....Pages 173-194
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Multi-National Public Corporations for Development and Integration in Latin America....Pages 199-224
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Economic Reforms and Labour Relations in the Socialist Countries of Eastern Europe....Pages 229-239
Some Possible Implications of East-West Enterprise-to-Enterprise Agreements....Pages 240-255
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Regional Economic Integration as the Creation of an Environment Favourable to Transnational Industrial Organisation in the E.E.C.....Pages 263-274
Efforts to bring about Community- Level Collective Bargaining in the Coal and Steel Community and the E.E.C.....Pages 275-308
European Regional Economic Integration and Collective Bargaining....Pages 309-320
International Collective Bargaining and Regional Economic Integration: Some Reflections on Experience in the E.E.C.....Pages 321-340
Towards an Extension of Multi-National Corporations of European Origin: Implications for Industrial Relations....Pages 341-350
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Summary of the Symposium Discussions....Pages 351-422
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The Future of Transnational Industrial Relations: A Tentative Framework for Analysis....Pages 423-446
Back Matter....Pages 447-480