World Labour Report 1997-98
Industrial relations, democracy and social stability
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Trade union associations: Current issues
- The reasons for stagnation
- The unions' objectives: Theory and practice
2. Trade unions in the throes of change
- New services
- New members
- New frontiers: Transnational trade union activities
- New alliances?
- Initial conclusions
3. Employers' organizations
4. The new features of production and industrial relations
- Opening national borders: What effects for industrial relations?
- Enterprise competitiveness and industrial relations
5. The instruments of social dialogue in the industrialized countries
- Introduction
- Industrial relations in countries with decentralized bargaining systems
- Industrial relations in countries with coordinated bargaining systems
- The case of Japan
- Comments on the public sector
- Towards a diversification of the levels of social dialogue
- Conclusions
6. The instruments of social dialogue in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe
- Collective bargaining at enterprise level: Real but uneven progress
- Results and problems of national agreements
7. The instruments of social dialogue in the newly industrialized and developing countries
- Industrial relations in Latin America
- Industrial relations in Asia
- Industrial relations in Africa
- Conclusions
8. Industrial relations and the informal sector
- Introduction
- Are industrial relations relevant to the informal sector?
- Informal workers' organizations: Characteristics, constraints and prospects
- Concluding remarks
9. The present as a signpost to the future
- New social dynamics?
- A broader geographic context
Statistical annex
Updated by MB. Approved by PD. Last Updated 1 Nov 2002.
