INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

By the same author Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis (with Michael J. Piore) Programs to Employ the Disadvantaged (ed.)

Industrial Relations in International Perspective Essays on Research and Policy Edited by Peter B. Doeringer with Peter Gourevitch Peter Lange Andrew Martin M MACMILLAN

Peter B. Doeringer 1981 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1981 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission First edition 1981 Reprinted 1990 Published by MACMILLAN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL LTD London and Basingstoke Companies and representatives throughout the world British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Industrial relations in international perspective 1. Industrial relations I. Doeringer, Peter B. 331 HB6961 ISBN 978-1-349-04444-3 ISBN 978-1-349-04442-9 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-04442-9

Contents Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements vi ix Industrial Relations Research in International Perspective. Peter B. Doeringer 2 Industrial Relations Research in Canada. H. D. Woods, Shirley B. Goldenberg 22 3 Industrial Relations Research in the United States. George Strauss, Peter Feuille 76 4 British Industrial Relations Research in the Sixties and Seventies. Derek Robinson 145 5 Sweden: Conflict, Power and Politics in Industrial Relations. Walter Korpi 185 6 Industrial Relations in West Germany. Heinz Hartmann, Wolfgang Conrad 218 7 Industrial Relations Research in France 1960-75: A Review. Jean-Daniel Reynaud 246 8 The Japanese System of Industrial Relations. Mikio Sumiya 287 9 The Italian System of Industrial Relations. Gino Giugni 324 10 Multinational Enterprise and Labour. B. C. Roberts 365 II Industrial Relations and Politics: Some Reflections. Peter Gourevitch, Peter Lange, Andrew Martin 401 Index 417 v

Notes on the Contributors Peter B. Doeringer is Professor of Economics at Boston University. He has taught at Harvard University and the London School of Economics. His publications include Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis and a number of monographs and articles on labour markets, manpower policy, and industrial relations. B. C. Roberts is Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics where he chairs the Department of Industrial Relations. He has served as President of both the British Industrial Relations Association and the International Industrial Relations Association. He has published widely on industrial relations matters including Trade Unions in a Free Society. George Strauss is Professor of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also Associate Dean and Associate Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations. He is the editor of Industrial Relations and has published widely in the field of industrial relations. Peter Feuil/e is Associate Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois, and has taught at SUNY, Buffalo, the University of Oregon and the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in problems of public sector unionism and has written The Impact of Police Unions. Shirley Goldenberg is Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at McGill University. She has published Professional Workers and Collective Bargaining and is on the Executive Board of the Industrial Relations Research Association. H. D. Woods is Professor of Industrial Relations at McGill University. He has been an adviser to the Canadian Government on industrial relations matters and was chairman of the Commission of Enquiry into the Construction Industry. He has published Labour Policy and Labour Economics in Canada. vi

Notes on the Contributors vii Derek Robinson is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics and Statistics at Oxford where he is also a Fellow of Magdalene College. He served as co-chairman of the British Government's Pay Board. His publications include Wage Drifi, Fringe Benefits, and Manpower Distribution. Walter Korpi teaches political science at the University of Stockholm. He has written widely on labour and politics in Sweden, including Why do Workers Strike? Gino Guigni is Professor of Law at the University of Rome and has also taught at the University of Bari. He is an adviser to the Italian Government and to Italian trade unions. He has written Labour Grievance Settlement in Western Europe. Mikio Sumiya is a Professor of Labour Economics at the University of Tokyo. His writings include History of Labour Union Movement in Japan, among many other articles and books on Japanese labour relations. Heinz Hartmann is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munster, where he also works as a research fellow at the lnstitut Fiir Sozialwissenschaft. His publications include Codetermination in West Germany. Wolfgang Conrad teaches at the University of Munster, where he also works as a research fellow at the lnstitut Fiir Sozialwissenschaft. Jean-Daniel Reynaud is director of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers at the University of Paris, where he teaches industrial relations. He is President of the International Industrial Relations Association and has written a two-volume work, Les Syndicats en France. Peter Gourevitch is an Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, and has published articles concerning regional government in France and Italy, and European political development. Peter Lange is an Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. His writings have included investigations of the Italian Communist Party. Andrew Martin is a Political Scientist at the Center for European Studies and has published essays on the comparative politics of Economic Policy, specializing in Sweden.

Acknowledgements We wish to thank our numerous colleagues who participated at one stage or another in the development of this manuscript. We are also grateful to the Jacob Wertheim Committee on Industrial Relations and to the Center for International Affairs, both of Harvard University, for their financial support of the project. A special debt is owed to the Contributors to this volume. Their studies of industrial relations research were completed in 1975 and were far more comprehensive than could be accommodated in a single volume. As a result, many important references had to be omitted. Throughout the project, the Contributors universally demonstrated a level of patience, understanding, and commitment that made a long collaboration worthwhile. PETER B. DoERINGER PETER GOUREVITCH PETER LANGE ANDREW MARTIN ix