Between 1950 and 1980, labor markets grew increasingly organized in advanced industrial
societies. Union membership in most countries expanded more rapidly than the labor force …

In this path-breaking book, the author argues that European countries' political-economic
policies, practices, and discourses have changed profoundly in response to globalization …

The second edition of The Dynamics of Employee Relations provides a thorough and up-to-
date analysis of the changes and underlying continuities occurring in employee relations. It …

Industrial relations systems in the advanced industrial countries are experiencing serious
new strains as a result of intensified market competition and adjustment pressures. More …

We investigate the effects of wage compression through centralized collective bargaining
when growth depends on the continual reallocation of labor from older, less productive …

Heroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when
economic circumstances require substantial job loss. Using simple game theory to generate …

This study examines the role played by globalization in the decline of strike rates in
industrialized countries after the 1980s. Using a pooled, time-series multiple regression …

As unions in most other industrialized democracies continue to decline, unions in Spain
have been able to regain and maintain strength despite unfavorable institutional, political …

This study assesses three explanations for cross-national differences in unionization:
Western's (1997) institutional model, economic explanations based on the business cycle or …

This article draws on the new institutionalism in economics, sociology, and political studies
in order to establish a foundation for analyzing how states shape employer human resource …