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Contents

    Adam, Barbara514
    Aldridge, Alan228
    Arrighi, G33
    Ashton, D68
    Babson, S44
    Bacchetta, M505
    Battilana, J204
    Bell, Daniel43
    Bourdieu, Pierre203
    Castañeda, J G413
    Chiluba, Frederick399
    Collor, Fernando451
    Colvin, A J S270
    Commons, J R223
    Cotterrell, R175
    Covarrubias, A451
    Cowen, Brian321
    D’Aunno, T204
    Davis, Kingsley571
    Deephouse, D L204
    Diamond, J36
    Dingwerth, K482
    Dølvik, J E293
    Dumenil, G33
    Engelen, E8
    Fransen, L W487
    Georgiadis, N534
    Gilbert, D U486
    Gimpelson, V456
    Glick Schiller, N574
    Gooderham, P N206
    Gospel, H45
    Goyer, Michael200
    Gramsci, Antonio246
    Green, F68
    Greskcovits, B610
    Guimaraes, S M K453
    Gumbrell-McCormick, R526
    Harbison, F H43
    Harzing, M-W53
    Hochschild, A579
    Höpner, M8
    Kapelyushnikov, R455
    Kassalow, E M623
    Kaunda, Kenneth398
    Kelly, Morgan320
    Kenyatta, Jomo400
    Keynes, John Maynard125
    Kibaki, Mwai401
    Kirchner, Cristina Fernández de415
    Klein, N9
    Kondratieff, Nikolai247
    Krippner, G R547
    Kristensen, P H53, 96
    Kuruvilla, S443
    Lansbury, R D100
    Lawrence, T B203
    Lindquist, J579
    Lugo, Fernando415
    Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio415
    Marchington, M282
    Muellenborn, T232
    Mwanamasa, Levy399
    Myers, C A43
    Nkrumah, Kwame392
    Ortega, Daniel415
    Ostrom, Elinor191
    Parker, M44
    Pedersen, O K77
    Pendleton, A45
    Peters, G24
    Piñera, Sebastián415
    Porter, M E91
    Pudelko, M53
    Quynh Chi Do440
    Rawlings, Jerry393
    Riisgaard, L693
    Rodriguez, R M576
    Rostow, W W43
    Sandberg, Cheryl515
    Sandel, M37
    Sarkozy, Nicolas625
    Sata, Michael399
    Schierup, C-U578
    Schumpeter, Joseph246
    Shaufeli, W B528
    Sinclair, Upton4
    Singer, P36
    Slaughter, J44
    Sobhuzu II, King of Swaziland405, 406
    Spencer, D A666
    Stallings, B416
    Stanojević, M371
    Suchman, M C204
    Szanton-Blanc, C574
    Tamm-Hallström, K487
    Thompson, E P519
    Thornton, P H203
    Tsvangirai, Morgan404
    Vázquez, Tabaré415
    Wałeşa, Lech369
    Walker, Scott276
    Wallerstein, M714
    Weiss, L34
    Wiesenthal, Helmut370
    Yeltsin, Boris9
    accumulation, and regimes of245
    active labour market programmes72, 300
    Africa9, 10, 14
      and authoritarian regimes390
      and autocratic regimes391
      and autocratic regimes with weak unions and incomplete employment relations403–7
      and democracies with strong unions and comprehensive employment relations392–6
      and democracies with weak unions and incomplete employment relations396–7
      and democracy and employment relations407
      and democracy and trade unions407–8
      and factors affecting employment relations408
      and flawed democracies390
      and flawed democracies with weak unions and incomplete employment relations398–401
      and hybrid regimes391
      and hybrid regimes with weak unions and incomplete employment relations401–3
      and informally dominated market economies387–8
      and trade union response to non-democratic regimes408
    African National Congress (ANC)394, 457
    All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)457
    All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU)460
    American Center for International Labor Solidarity438
    Asia, developing countries in:
      and Asian financial crisis (1997)434–5
      and authoritarian corporatism434
      and Cold War's influence on434
      and colonialism's influence on433–4
      and economic diversity431
      and employment relations systems432
      and Export Processing Zones432
      and foreign influences on employment practices435
      and inequality431
      and labour-intensive manufacturing431–2
      and negative complementarities432–3
      and trade unions434
      and tripartism434
    Asian American Free Labor Institute438
    Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)434
    Australia9, 49, 263
      and collective labour rights599, 601
      and dismissal rates264
      and earnings inequality267
      and employers' associations277
      and employment protection271, 605
      and industrial conflict709
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593
      and state agencies688
      and taxation levels596
      and working days lost281
    Australian Fair Pay Commission688
    Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs)279
    Austria:
      and collective bargaining706, 707
      and collective labour rights599, 601
      and corporatism47
      and earnings inequality267
      and industrial conflict709
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593
      and taxation levels596
      and trade unions706
      and vocational training70
      and working days lost281
      and works councils602
    authoritarian populism649, 650
    authoritarian regimes, and Africa390
    authority relations:
      and business systems theory89, 95, 106
      and collaborative hierarchies101
      and compartmentalized business systems98
      and fragmented business systems94
      and specialized networks96, 97
    Baltic states379
    banking industry33
      and business systems theory88
      and collaborative hierarchies101
      and state support for162
    Belgium:
      and collective bargaining707
      and collective labour rights601
      and earnings inequality267
      and employee tenure265
      and euro crisis317
      and industrial conflict325, 709
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593
      and taxation levels596
      and trade unions704
      and working days lost281
    Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS, India)457
    BRICS countries15, 448
      and complexity and diversity of451
      and cooperation between448
      and diversity of employment relations in451
      and economic significance of449
      and future research on466
      and international financial institutions466
      and multinational corporations466
      and transitional challenges466
    brokers, and migration577
    budgetary policy, and pro-cyclical nature of128
    business, and structural power of6
    business organization114
    call centres201
    Canada263
      and earnings inequality267
      and employers' associations277
      and employment protection271
      and industrial conflict709
      and labour turnover265
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593, 595
      and working days lost281
    capital, and political power4, 5
    capital accumulation116
    capital markets, and business systems theory88
    capital mobility4, 473
      and impact on firm-level corporate governance479–81
    capitalism:
      and age of global instability251–5
      and contemporary forms of125
      and historical changes in employment relations241–7
    care work:
      and gendered and racialized nature of509–10
      and global care chains579, 582
      and poor working conditions580
      and state support for549
    Catalonia32
    Central and Eastern Europe14
      and changes in employment law371–4
      and collapse of communism359
      and continuity with past360
      and convergence towards social partnership model359
      and divergence from social partnership model359–60
      and diversity of employment relations in359, 378–9
      and employers' associations371, 376
      and employment relations under state socialism360–3
      and future prospects for employment relations380
      and impact of multinational corporations377–8
      and implementation of employment law374–5
      and inequality364
      and informal economy364
      and labour share of national income713
      and minimum standards372
      and minimum wage610
      and part-time employment711
      and reformed old trade unions367–9
      and response to global economic crisis629
      and self-employment364
      and social dialogue370
      and violations of employment law374–5
      and workplace employment relations375
      and works councils602
    Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)694
    Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU, Kenya)400
    Central Unica dos Trabalhadores (CUT, Brazil)453
    Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)457
    change:
      in age of global instability251–5
      and historical changes in employment relations241–7
      and varieties of capitalism approach250, 251
    China8, 15, 431
      and change in ownership patterns459
      and collective bargaining460
      and corporate social responsibility694
      and criticism of employment practices450
      and employment agencies692
      and employment relations developments459–62
      and employment relations legislation459–60
      and foreign direct investment459
      and informal employment460
      and labour contracts461
      and multinational corporations459, 695
      and new actors in employment relations685
      and population growth449
      and privatization459
      and registration system576
      and state investment253
      and trade unions461
      and tripartism461
      and uneven coverage of employee protection460
    Chinese Federation of Labour (CFL)343
    church-state relations622
    civil law176–7
      and compulsory redundancy180
      and firm training expenditure180
      and market regulation177
      and staff turnover180
      and variations in180
    codes of conduct, and international labour standards484–5
    cognitive capitalism254
    collective action:
      and game theoretical analysis of194–5
      and professionals139
      and rational choice theory195
      and risk-sharing139
      and stable employees138
      and stakeholding139
    collective goods, and state provision of620–1
    commodity prices9
    common law176, 177
      and compulsory redundancy180
      and firm training expenditure180
      and liberal market economies269
      and market regulation177
      and staff turnover180
      and variations in180
    Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)363, 365, 366, 373, 379
      and changes in employment law373
      and trade unions365
    comparative capitalism37
      and lack of attention to developing world2
      and viable alternatives to market liberalism156
    competence destruction91
    competition, and changed nature of126–7
    competitiveness:
      and labour repression25
    complementarities9, 32, 42
      and business systems theory89
      and capitalist diversity158
      and diversity158
      and institutions192
      and mixed systems157
    conflict226, 227, 229, 255
      and labour process theory243
      and Marxist-inspired analyses of243
      as pathological condition242
    Congress of Unions of Employees of Public and Civil Services (CUEPACS, Malaysia)442
    consumers, and influence on labour standards484
    Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)580
    convergence10
      and complementarities42
      and crisis in employment relations702
      and decentralized bargaining48–9
      and decline in union strength45
      and global economic crisis56–7
      and globalization thesis45
      and logic of industrialism43–4
      and multinational corporations53
      and varieties of capitalism approach45–7
    converging divergencies (within-country diversity)42–3, 50
      and factors encouraging diversity52
      and institutional plasticity50–2
      and multinational corporations53–5
    cooperative movement159
    coordinated market economies (CMEs)9, 13, 45, 66, 250
      and changes in165
      and competitive strategy of firms67
      and earnings inequality267
      and economic growth79
      and employers' support for social investment74
      and employment protection271
      and employment relations practices46
      and European Monetary Union318, 319
      and industrial conflict280
      and institutional change76–8
      and labour share of national income713
      and meso-corporatism70
      and Nordic countries293
      and sectoral diversity161
      and sectoral/regional coordination70
      and skills regime66
      and social protection system67
      and strengths and weaknesses of157
      and structure of political competition75–6
      and temporal diversity73
      and trade union density273
      and variation in coordination modes69–70
      and varieties of capitalism approach26, 27, 45
    corporate finance, and business systems theory88
    corporate governance12
      and employment practices46
    corporate social responsibility485, 694
    corruption, and elites7–8
    critical theory, and the state619
    debt717
      and increase in consumer4
    debt leverage4
    decentralization:
      and collective bargaining48–9
      and institutional diversity32
    demand, and crisis of1
    demand regimes, and role of the state117
    democracy:
      and definition of388
      and employment relations385
    democratic consolidation, and definition of389
    democratic transition:
      and definition of389
      and Latin America417
    democratization:
      and definition of389
      and Latin America417
    dependency theory574
    deregulation:
      and diversity in employment relations policies52
      and liberal market economies270
      and political consensus over683
    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalization and Poverty574
    Development Studies573
    discourse, and constructivist institutionalism209
    dismissal rates:
      and liberal market economies264–5
    diversified quality production68
    domestic work508–9
      and global care chains579, 582
      as global industry578
      and regulation by migrant-receiving countries581
      and regulation by migrant-sending countries580–1
    Donovan Commission222
    downsizing rates, and liberal market economies265
    dualism548
      and employment relations practices47, 200
      and historical institutionalist analysis of200
      and resistance to79
    East Germany361
    economic growth:
      and coordination79
    economic performance:
      and employment systems42
      and varieties of capitalism approach26
    economic transitions3
    education:
      and business systems theory88
    electoral politics:
      and absence of meaningful alternatives37
      and employers' associations75–6
      and regional development160
    electoral systems:
      and first past the post systems160
      and strength of employment protection law593
    elites7
      and institutional breakage9
      and societal decline36
      and withdrawal from everyday life37
    emergence, theory of668
    emergent market economies (EMEs)157
    employee tenure:
      and coordinated market economies264, 265
      and liberal market economies264, 265
    employee voice See voice
    employers' associations11
      and Central and Eastern Europe371, 376
      and industrial policy75
      and Latin America424
      and liberal market economies277
      as new actors in employment relations689–90
      and structure of political competition75–6
    employment agencies692
    employment outcomes, and liberal market economies264–8
    employment systems661
    environmental crisis36, 168
    equal opportunities205
    Equatorial Guinea695
    European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)363
    European Commission318
    European Union (EU)6–7
      and capitalist diversity163
      and employee voice283
      and individual labour rights605
      and influence on national industrial relations632
    Export Processing Zones (EPZs)432, 442
    export-oriented economies, and employment relations717–18, 719
    Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU)341, 350
    finance capitalism7
      and dominance of127
    financial crises, and capital mobility476–7
    financial globalization33, 480, 488
      and capital mobility473
      and impact on firm-level corporate governance473, 479–81
      and institutional constraints on pressures of474, 481
      and market for corporate control481
      and society/interest-group approach to responses to478, 480
    financial intermediaries, and power of33
    financial services industry, and state support for162
    financial system, and business systems theory88
    Finland:
      and earnings inequality267
      and employee tenure265
      and employment protection271, 605
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593, 594
      and taxation levels596
      and working days lost281
    firm internationalization, and diversity in employment relations policies52, 73
    firm ownership:
      and compartmentalized business systems98
      and fragmented business systems94
      and Germany-United Kingdom comparison102
      and specialized networks95
    firm size, and industrial relations179
    firms:
      as core drivers of employment relations244–5
      and diversity of political and economic strategies71–2
    fiscal policy128
    Forca Sindical (FS, Brazil)453
    Fordism2
      and breakdown of3
      and diversity of659
      and labour regulation552
      and terms and conditions of employment709
      and wage-labour nexus123
    foreign direct investment (FDI)268, 629
    France68
      and collective bargaining707
      and dualism in employment relations200
      and employee voice526
      and employment protection605, 607
      and long-run transformations in labour market institutions119–20
      and modernization of industrial structure200
      and part-time employment549
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593
      and public sector employment548
      and short-term investors200
      and statist tradition618
      and taxation levels596
      and trade unions140
    Frankfurt School, and the state619
    free-riding, and rational choice theory195
    French Regulation School67
    functionalist sociology222, 224, 225
      and institutionalist-pluralist tradition223–7
      and radical-institutionalist tradition227–31
      and sociological tradition in contemporary institutional analysis231–6
    Gallup Research Group527
    gender equality, and Nordic countries299–300
    General Motors Europe211
    Germany8, 48, 69
      and call centres201
      and changes in employment relations system200–1
      and collaborative business system102–4
      and collective bargaining706, 707
      and collective labour rights599, 601
      and corporate governance changes52
      and corporatism47
      and dualism in employment relations200
      and earnings inequality267
      and employee voice526
      and employment by gender551
      and firm ownership and control96
      and gender regulation560
      and global economic crisis56–7
      and industrial relations199
      and labour market institutions103
      and long-term investors200
      and minimum wage610
      and polarized labour market161
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593–4
      and response to global economic crisis628
      and role of the state625
      and sectoral diversity161
      and specialized networks96
      and stock market capitalization and stock distribution102
      and taxation levels597
      and temporal diversity73
      and temporary employment712
      and vocational training70
      and working days lost281
    Ghana385
      and industrial relations legislation392, 393
      and National Youth Employment Programme393–4
      and tripartism393
    Ghent system620
    global economic and financial crisis1, 3, 4, 252
      and converging divergencies42–3
      and coordinated economies80
      and energy transition35
      and explanations of4
      and firm responses to56
      and globalization57
      and implications for employment relations55–7
      and liberal market economies477
      and limits of deregulated markets57
      and mixed market economies477
      and national responses to79, 80, 477
      and role of the state in responding to627–9
      and structural crisis and change35–7
      and workplace impact of18
    global value chain governance693–4
    global warming168
    Grange (American agricultural organization)71
    Greece:
      and employment protection605
      and part-time employment711
      and protest movements647
      and taxation levels596
    growth regimes116
      and co-evolution of wage-labour nexus and macroeconomic regimes118–29
      and destabilization of Golden Age institutional architecture124–6
      and historical wage formation patterns121–3
      and international regimes117
      and long-run transformations in labour market institutions118, 119–20
      and post-war capital-labour compromise123– 4
      and structural compatibility of institutional forms117– 18
    guest worker programmes575
    Hudson Bay Company495
    human resource management (HRM):
      and community mode of336
      and contemporary debate in1
      as elusive concept662
      and hierarchical mode of336
      and institutional landscape of660–7
      and market-oriented approach to336
      and prescriptive aspect of662
      and shortcomings of literature on655
      and weakness of universalistic claims of662
    Hungary:
      and collective bargaining376
      and employment protection605
      and taxation levels596
      and wage inequality714
      and works councils373
    hybridization77, 158
      and discouragement of157
      and institutional change164
      and multinational corporation practices54
    Hyundai Motor Company100
    Imbokodvo National Movement (INM, Swaziland)405
    imperfect competition116
    import substitution industrialization (ISI), and Latin America417
    income distribution:
      and employment systems42
      and Nordic countries307
    India15, 253, 431
      and balance of payments crisis (1991-92)456–7
      and collective bargaining457, 458
      and economic resilience457
      and employment law avoidance458–9
      and employment relations developments456–9
      and Industrial Relations Act458
      and labour market457
      and labour market policies450
      and multinational corporations' influence458
      and National Labour Commission457
      and population growth449
      and trade unions457
      and training and development458
    Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)457
    individualization of employment relations24, 245, 246
    Indonesia14, 431, 433, 436–8
      and alternative labour movement437
      and Asian financial crisis (1997)435, 437
      and colonial legacy436
      and democratization435
      and foreign influences on employment practices435
      and international labour movement438
      and labour repression436
      and liberalization of employment relations437
      and tripartism437
    Industrial and Commercial Bank of China450
    Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF, USA)690
    industrial conflict:
      and cross-national comparison of trends in708, 709
      and European monetary integration325
      and game theoretical analysis of194
      and liberal market economies280–2
      and Nordic countries295
    industrial policy75
    industrial relations (IR)12
      and actors within223
      in age of global instability251–5
      and Berkeley-Harvard tradition223–4
      and diversification of140
      and firm size179
      and historical institutionalism28
      and institutional labour economics23–4
      and institutionalist-pluralist tradition223–7
      and Marxist-inspired analyses of243–4
      and neo-pluralism233
      and new statism34
      and organizational-societal approaches25–6
      and overview of classical debates in241–3
      and personnel management23
      and radical-institutionalist tradition227–31
      and rational choice approaches24–5
      and role of unions in early theories242
      and sector type179
      and social systems theory30
      and sociological tradition in contemporary institutional analysis231–6
      and tripartite bargaining system242
      and varieties of capitalism approach27, 233–5
    industrial revolution, and wage formation121–2
    industrialism, and convergence43–4
    industrialization:
      and role of the state622
      and wage formation122
    informally dominated market economies (IDMEs)387
    information and communications technology (ICT), and insecurity544
    information society246
    innovation, and varieties of capitalism approach268
    insecurity:
      and comparative institutional theories545–9
      and dualization548
      and globalization544
      and non-standard employment542
      and structural features of capitalism547
      and technological change544
      and unravelling of the social contract545
      and varieties of capitalism perspective546–7
    institutional economics114
    institutional labour economics23–4
    institutional plasticity201
      and converging divergencies50–2
    institutions11
      and changes in31
      and complementarity32, 192
      and cross-national diversity in employment relations policies48
      and culturalist view of51
      and definition of387
      and elite breakage of9
      and employment relations1
      and experimentational change32
      and fluidity of31
      and functional explanation of192–3
      and historical institutionalism27–8
      and multi-archetypical models29–30
      and multinational corporations54
      and new statism34
      and order24
      and organizational-societal approaches25–6
      and rational choice approaches24–5
      and regional and sectoral differences32
      as resources51
      and social systems theory30
      and spatial analysis31
      and temporal analysis31
      and varieties of capitalism approaches26–7
    intellectual property5
    interdependence, and employment relations178
    interest groups, and indirect support from the state620
    International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)372, 644
    International Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and their Families (1996)580
    international financial institutions (IFIs)163, 466
    international financial markets127
    International Framework Agreements (IFAs)483, 693–4
    international labour standards474, 488
      and civil society-led multi-stakeholder initiatives485–6
      and comparing mechanisms487
      and emergence of482
      and global value chain governance693–4
      and industry-led multi-stakeholder initiatives486–7
      and International Framework Agreements483, 693–4
      and market-based standards484
      and private labour governance484
      and transnational institution-led multi-stakeholder standards486
    International Organization for Migration (IMO)573
    international organizations, and labour relations632
    International Standardization Organization (ISO)487
    international trade, and changes in8–9
    International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)435, 644, 645
    internationalization52, 73, 86
      and business systems theory105, 107
      and dominance of finance127
    Iraq conflict3
    Ireland263
      and asset boom320
      and earnings inequality267
      and employee voice283
      and employers' associations277
      and foreign direct investment268
      and industrial conflict709
      and minimum wage610
      and part-time employment711
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593, 595
      and poor financial regulation320–1
      and role of the state272
      and working days lost281
    Italy:
      and collective bargaining707
      and collective labour rights599, 601
      and employment protection605, 607
      and industrial districts30, 97
      and part-time employment711
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593
      and taxation levels596
      and temporary employment712
      and trade unions647
    Japan8, 13, 30, 334
      and adjustments to employment practices345–8
      and changes in labour market structure345–6
      and decentralized bargaining348
      and diffusion of US-style practices163
      and dual industrial structure337–8
      and earnings inequality267
      and economic growth344
      and employment by gender551
      and gender regulation560
      and kereitsu104
      and lifetime employment338, 346
      and market-oriented unions340
      and organizational diversity52
      and part-time employment550, 551
      and paternalistic human resource management practices340
      and performance pay347
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593, 595
      and pressures for change344
      and seniority-based pay338, 346
      and social protection543
      and taxation levels597
      and trade union density273
      and traditional employment practices337–40
    Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions (IMF-JC)340, 348
    joint consultative committees (JCCs)528–9
    Kaldorian circle1, 2, 33
    Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU)350
    labour markets:
      and dualization of8
      and legal regulation177
    labour process, and trade unions639
    labour sociology114
    labour standards205
    Latin America14
      and democratic transition417
      and democratization417
      and differences between de jure and de facto labour standards416, 424
      and employers' associations424
      and employment laws index416
      and employment regulation with left and non-left governments418, 419, 420
      and employment relations before left turn417
      and government partisanship and reform421
      and grassroots mobilization426
      and informal employment relations416
      and inherited structural constraints417
      and intra-regional diversity425
      and legacy of import substitution industrialization417
      and non-wage labour costs419, 421
      and obstacles to skill development424–5
      and obstacles to union-employer cooperation425
      and personal compensation421
      and political economy characteristics423
      and regulation of employment relationship416
      and social security laws index416
      and worker representation416
    law11–12, 173
      and comparative institutional analysis174–5
      and compatibility of owner and worker rights183
      and complementarity184
      and compulsory redundancy180
      and continuum of systems177
      and Durkheim's classical sociology175–6
      and economic performance178, 186
      and effects of legal system on employment relations178–81, 182
      and evolution of legal systems184
      and exaggeration of effects on firm behaviour182
      and firm training expenditure180
      and hybrid legal systems182, 184
      and indefensibility of primacy of owners' rights182–3
      and market regulation177
      and multinational corporations180
      and property rights175
      and protection of private property rights176, 177
      and reservations about legal families theory182–4
      and social organization174
      and staff turnover180
      and uneven enforcement183
      and variations within legal systems180
    lean production44
    Lehman Brothers56
    leverage, and economic growth7
    Libya conflict3
    lifelong learning, and Nordic countries302
    low pay, and liberal market economies266, 267
    Maastricht Treaty (1991)326
    Malaysian Labour Organization (MLO)445n15
    Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC)442
    managerial practice17
      and balancing efficiency and equity665
      and conditioning effects of institutions661–2
      and frontier of control673
      and hard version of human resource management662, 663–4
      and politicized nature of671
      and shortcomings of literature on655
      and uncertainty666
    manufacturing industry:
      and liberal market economies268
    market flexibility:
      and collective action139
      and unionization140
    marketization, and wage-labour nexus147–8
    meso-corporatism70
    microeconomics of labour114
    minimum wage:
      and absence in Nordic countries307, 308
      and liberal market economies271–2
      and neo-liberalism605
      and social democratic regimes605
    Mitsubishi Motor Company100
    mixed market economies (MMEs)13, 157
      and global economic crisis477
    monetary policy, and international financial markets127–8
    Mont Pelerin society208
    Movement for Democratic Change (MDC, Zimbabwe)405
    Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD, Zambia)399
    Multi-Fibre Arrangement443
    multinational corporations (MNCs)30, 72
      and authority relations106
      and BRICS countries466
      and collective bargaining630
      and consumers’ influence on labour standards484
      and country of origin effect55, 106, 180
      and dealing with cross-national differences53–4
      and decentralization of industrial relations54
      as drivers of within-country diversity53–5
      and employment relations106
      and influence on national employment relations629–30, 695
      and national institutions54
      as norm entrepreneurs163
      and organizational careers106
      and parent country government695
      and pressures for coordination of policies54
      and reinforcement of local practices163
      and sociological institutionalism205–6
      and standardization of employment practices53
    Myanmar (Burma)431
    National Council of Unions (NACTU, South Africa)462
    National Economic Development and Labour Advisory Council (South Africa)395, 688
    National Rainbow Coalition (Narc, Zambia)401
    National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW)396, 397
    National Working People's Convention (Zimbabwe)404–5
    Nautilus (trade union)644
    neo-corporatism242
    neo-liberalism16, 244
      and constructivist analysis of rise of208–9
      and differential adoption of591
      and diversity in employment relations policies52
      and dominance of7
      and enclosure of intellectual commons5
      and globalization657
      and government policy591
      as historical rupture247
      and insecurity544
      and macroeconomic policy590
      and migration164
      and prolongation of economic downswing253
      and resistance to79
      and state intervention246
      and uneven development of676
    neo-Malthusianism36
    neo-pluralism233
    Netherlands:
      and collective labour rights599
      and earnings inequality267
      and employee tenure265
      and euro crisis318
      and industrial conflict325
      and part-time employment711
      and 'polder' model30
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593–4
      and social pacts709
      and temporary employment712
      and trade union density273
      and wage inequality714
      and working days lost281
    New Public Management621
    New Zealand263
      and collective labour rights599, 601
      and decline in union strength275
      and earnings inequality266, 267
      and employers' associations277
      and employment protection271, 605
      and labour turnover265
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593
      and role of the state272
      and working days lost281
    Ngwane National Liberatory Congress (NNLC, Swaziland)406
    Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)402
    non-governmental organizations (NGOs)6, 485–6
    Nordic countries13
      and absence of minimum wage307, 308
      and active labour market policies300
      and challenges to labour market model311–12
      and childcare299
      and collective agreement coverage307–8
      and collective labour rights601
      and demographic challenge311
      and diversity within293
      and employers' governance prerogative295
      and female labour market participation296, 298–9
      and gender pay gap300
      and industrial conflict295
      and labour share of national income713
      and lifelong learning302
      and local wage bargaining307
      and mutual recognition295
      and organized decentralization in bargaining307
      and parental leave299
      and peace duty295
      and pressures on centralized bargaining system295–6
      and principles of labour market model294–5
      and response to global economic crisis80
      and social accords184
      and social democratic capitalism292, 293
      and tripartism306
      and varieties of capitalism approach293
      and wage distribution307
      and welfare state294
    normative functionalism224
    Norway:
      and active labour market policies300
      and centralized bargaining306
      and collective labour rights601
      and corporatism47
      and earnings inequality267
      and employee tenure265
      and labour immigration309
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593, 594
      and taxation levels596
      and working days lost281
    occupational pensions, and decline of159
    oligarchs7
    order242
      and institutions24
      and state's role in maintaining251
    outsourcing32
    owner rights25
    owners, and powers of175
    parental leave, and Nordic countries299
    part-time employment:
      and cross-national comparison550–1
      and gendered distribution of550, 551
      and growth of711
    party competition, and employers' associations75–6
    path dependence:
      and constructivist institutionalism209
      and historical institutionalism197
      and rational choice institutionalism192, 195
    People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO, Swaziland)406, 407
    personnel management23
    policy elites/community7
    policy-making, and impact of financial globalization475–8
    political behaviour, and individualization of6
    political engagement77, 78, 79
    political parties, and labour market deregulation683
    political power, and shifts in4, 5
    politics:
      and absence of meaningful electoral alternatives37
      and elite withdrawal from everyday life37
      and global crisis36
      and the labour process244
    Portugal:
      and collective bargaining707
      and collective labour rights599
      and employment protection605, 710
      and euro crisis317
      and part-time employment711
      and social pacts709
      and taxation levels596
      and temporary employment712
    postcolonial studies256
    post-industrialism246
    private equity, as norm entrepreneurs163
    private governance482
    production paradigms, and changes in125–6
    production regimes244
      and changes in3
      and coordinated markets156
      and role of the state117
      and wage-labour nexus116
    professionals:
      and collective action139
      and unionization140
    property markets, and over-inflation of4
    public service users/clients692–3
    quantitative easing162
    recession, and economic growth2–3
    Red Federation of Trade Unions (Vietnam)438
    redundancy, and legal systems180
    regional organizations6
    regulated competition73
    regulation theory11, 28–9, 37, 115, 245–6, 659–60
      and capitalist change246
      and centrality of wage-labour nexus116
      and co-evolution of wage-labour nexus and macroeconomic regimes118–29
      and contribution to analysis of employment relations150–2
      and destabilization of Golden Age institutional architecture124–6
      and determinants of modern employment relations133
      and factors affecting viability of employment relations141–2
      and fait salarial669
      and forms of competition116
      and hierarchy of institutional forms126
      and historical wage formation patterns121–3
      and ideal types of employment relationships131, 132
      and (in)stability of industrial relations670
      and institutional integration670
      and international regimes117
      and levels of governance668
      and long-run transformations in labour market institutions118, 119–20
      and marketization of wage-labour-nexus147–8
      and modes of regulation245
      and post-war capital-labour compromise123– 4
      and rapport salarial669
      and regimes of accumulation245
      and reinterpretation of the past130–1
      and social regulation659
      and structural compatibility of institutional forms117– 18
      and systemic change29, 165
      and transformations of capitalism115
    regulationist literature3
    remittances, and migration572, 574
    Republican Party (USA)168
    resource constraints7, 36
    Responsible Jewellery Council487
    retail industry4
    Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil487
    rule of law, and fragmented business systems94
    rules:
      and legitimation25
      and role of the state620
    Seattle, and World Trade Organization protest194–5, 249
    secondary market136
    segmentation, theory of134
    segmented business systems387
    service sector:
      and female labour market participation507
    sexuality at work513
    share ownership, and Germany-United Kingdom comparison102
    shareholder capitalism26
    skill formation regimes11
      and business systems theory88
      and competitive strategy of firms67
      and coordinated market economies66
      and diversity in vocational training70–1
      and fragmented business systems94
      and historical institutionalist analysis of199–200
      and liberal market economies66–7
      and social protection systems67
    Slovenia9, 14
      and collective labour rights601
      as coordinated market economy379
      and corporatism371
      and employment protection607, 710
      and social pacts709
      and works councils373
    small and medium-sized enterprises525
    social contract543
    social dumping474
    social mobility, downward35
    social movements6
    social pacts720n3
      and corporatism627
      and cross-national comparison of trends in707– 8, 709
      and factors associated with628
      and the state613
    social protection:
      and destabilization of128
      and skills regimes67
      and social contracts543
    social science theory:
      and need for Southern perspective on504–5
      and Northern bias of504
    social systems, long-term evolution of36
    social systems theory30
    societal corporatism48
    societal factors shaping employment relations2–10
    sociological institutionalism12, 202
      and applications in employment relations205–6, 386
      and collective organizations204
      and equal opportunities205
      and field concept203
      and institutional entrepreneurship204–5
      and institutional logics203
      and institutional work203
      and international diffusion of ideas206
      and interpretive struggles204
      and labour standards205
      and logics of consequences and appropriateness202
      and multinational corporations205–6
      and origins of institutions203
      and paradox of embedded agency204
      and reproduction of institutions203–4
    sociology:
      and contemporary institutional analysis231–6
      and institutionalist-pluralist tradition223–7
      and radical-institutionalist tradition227–31
    Solidarity Support Organizations435, 438
    South Africa9, 15, 385, 394–6, 450
      and Basic Conditions of Employment Act (1998)463
      and Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Power Act (2004)464
      and collective bargaining395, 462
      and Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration395–6, 462
      and deterioration in employment standards463
      and dispute resolution464
      and Employment Equity Act (1998)464
      and fragmentation of bargaining463
      and HIV/AIDS465
      and human resource development465
      and Industrial Conciliation Act (1924)394
      and population growth449
      and prohibitions on unfair discrimination464–5
      and state agencies688
      and transitional challenges465
      and worker service organizations691
    South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU)463
    South African Communist Party (SACP)394
    South Korea13, 334–5
      and adjustments to employment practices348–51
      and Asian financial crisis (1997)345, 349
      and centralized hierarchies100
      and changes in labour market structure348–9
      and dual industrial structure340
      and economic growth345
      and employment stability341
      and lifetime employment341, 350
      and market- and society-oriented unions342
      and migration576
      and paternalistic human resource management practices342
      and pressures for change345
      and recruitment practices350
      and research and development350
      and seniority-based pay341
      and traditional employment practices340–2
      and training and development350
      and unemployment345
      and urban industrial missions (UIMs)691
      and wage differentials340
    South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO)396, 397
    Spain32
      and asset boom320
      and collective bargaining707
      and employment protection605, 710
      and employment relations211
      and part-time employment711
      and protest movements647
      and taxation levels596
      and temporary employment712
      and trade unions704
    Stability and Growth Pact318, 328
    staff turnover:
      and legal systems180
      and liberal market economies265–6
      and South Korea341
    stakeholder capitalism26
    stakeholding:
      and collective action139
      and employment relations132, 137
      and unionization141
    state agencies, as new actors in employment relations688–9
    state regulation, and globalization481
    stock markets, and international integration of479
    stock options137
    structuration theory166
    sub-Saharan Africa See Africa
    supermarkets4
    supranational actors, and capitalist diversity163–4
    Swaziland Federation of Labour (SFL)406
    Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU)406, 407
    Sweden48, 69
      and active labour market policies300
      and Basic Agreement (1938)626
      and centralized bargaining306
      and collective labour rights601
      and corporatism47
      and earnings inequality267
      and employee tenure265
      and industrial conflict709
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593, 594
      and Rehn-Meidner model301
      and taxation levels596
      and vocational training302
      and working days lost281
    Switzerland:
      and earnings inequality267
      and employee tenure265
      and employment protection271
      and industrial conflict709
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593, 595
      and taxation levels597
      and wage inequality714
      and working days lost281
    Taiwan13, 335
      and adjustments to employment practices351–2
      and changes in labour market structure351
      and collective bargaining344
      and economic growth345
      and foreign influences on employment practices342
      and human resource management practices342–3, 351
      and market- and society-oriented unions344
      and paternalistic human resource management practices344
      and pressures for change345
      and small and medium-sized enterprises342
      and traditional employment practices342–4
      and unemployment345
    takeovers, and financial globalization481
    Tavistock Institute526
    technological advances:
      and insecurity544
      and obstacles to5
    Telebras (Brazil)452
    Telefonica (Brazil)454
    trade deficits8
    Trade Union Congress of Namibia (TUCNA)397
    trade unions17, 637–8
      and centrality to study of employment relations242
      and class-oriented unions337
      and coercion195
      and convergence45
      and cross-national comparison of union density705
      and decentralized bargaining49
      and defensive strategies646
      and divergent trends in density47
      and early industrial relations theories242
      and economistic unions648
      and functions of74
      and government acceptance of600, 601
      and high road competitiveness strategy245
      and incentives to join195
      and institutional influences on ideology210–11
      and institution/movement distinction643
      and International Framework Agreements483
      and the labour process639
      and liberal market economies273–6
      and market flexibility140
      and market-oriented unions337
      and polyvalent stability140
      and post-socialist countries643
      and professionals140
      and protest movements647
      and regional diversity159
      and revitalization strategies276
      and social spending74
      and society-oriented unions337
      and stakeholding141
      and transition societies643, 646
      and the workplace643
    transaction cost economics91
    transformative social activity656
    transitional economies, and firm-level strategic performance456
    transnationalism, and migration574
    trust235
      and business systems theory88–9
      and fragmented business systems94
      and industrial relations229
      and Nordic countries310
    Union Network International (UNI)454
    United Arab Emirates581
    United Kingdom263
      and collective bargaining274, 279
      and collective labour rights601
      and dismissal rates264
      and downsizing rates265
      and dualism in employment relations47
      and earnings inequality267
      and employee voice283
      and employers' associations277
      and employment by gender551
      and employment protection271, 605
      and financialization717
      and gender regulation560
      and Japanese multinational corporations163
      and labour turnover265
      and new statism5, 162
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour594
      and response to global economic crisis628–9
      and stock market capitalization and stock distribution102
      and sub-national diversity107, 160
      and wage inequality714
      and working days lost281
    United National Independent Party (UNIP, Zambia)398, 399
    United Nations Global Compact486
    United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment486
    United States263
      and call centres201
      and changes in employment relations194
      and corporate restructuring479
      and dismissal rates264
      and downsizing rates265
      and dualism in employment relations47, 71, 561
      and earnings inequality266, 267
      and employers' associations277
      and employment by gender551
      and employment protection271
      and employment rights organizations690
      and equal opportunities205
      and financialization717
      and gender regulation560
      and influence on international convergence44
      and innovation268
      and internal diversity in employment relations27
      and labour turnover265
      and legalization of employment relations272
      and minimum wage272
      and part-time employment550, 551
      and performance pay266
      and political and industrial strength of organized labour593, 594–5
      and political characteristics272
      and regional labour market institutions162
      and regulated competition73
      and wage inequality714
      and working days lost281
    urban industrial missions (UIMs, South Korea)691
    Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL)438–9, 440
    Vietnamese Confederation of Christian Workers438
    voice15–16, 534–5
      and broad scope of term524
      and concerns over motivations for523
      and criticisms of participation530
      and definition of524
      and economic efficiency527
      and employee-employer interdependence523–4
      and employers' motives for promoting523
      and external influences on management529
      and indirect participation528
      and industrial democracy527
      and informal voice534
      and integrated approach to534
      and joint consultative committees528–9
      and labour market's influence on532
      and legislative frameworks531
      and management's role in operation of526, 527, 529
      and mutual gains523
      and non-union forms of525
      and participation523
      and political and economic environment532
      and positive impacts of529
      and practical outcomes of525
      and product market's influence on531–2
      and role of the state526
      and small and medium-sized enterprises525
      and trade unions525
      and value of concept535
    Warwick Industrial Relations Research Unit225
    Washington consensus253
    welfare capitalism99
    welfare regimes547–8
      and corporatist regimes243
      and Nordic countries294
      and social democratic regimes243
    Wiehann Commission (Namibia)396, 397
    work regimes, and heterogeneity of11
    workers' agencies, as new actors in employment relations690–1
    World Bank637
      and Doing Business Project25, 418
      and gender inequality517
      and migration-development nexus574
      and remittances into developing countries572
    Yong Dong Po (YDP, South Korea)691
    Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)398, 399
    Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)403–4
    Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)404–5
    Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions (ZFTU)404
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