Name: The Workers of Nations By Sanford M. Jacoby (Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, University of California, Los Angleles)
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The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy by Sanford M. Jacoby (Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, University of California, Los Angleles)

The new international economy is today the single most important factor shaping relations between employers, unions, and governments in the world's advanced industrial societies. While companies compete in global markets with firms around the world, workers remain fixed in each country and are influenced by local the customs and mores. This book explores how globalization affects the contemporary workplace and how workplace policies can make nations more internationally competitive. Unlike other country-by-country treatments of the subject, this analysis compares and contrasts the experiences of different nations around important developments, such as the labor market consequences of regional trading pacts, the international diffusion of new forms of work organization, and the strategies that nations are pursuing to keep their work systems competitive. The contributors come from a variety of disciplines but all bear expertise in international industrial relations.

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There is a distinguished cast-list, headed by leading business and labour management historian Sanford Jacoby ... the book comprises a highly stimulating and thought-provoking collection of essays ... it can be recommended to all those interested in the labour management implications of economic internationalization ... There is an important message, too, implicit in the collective findings of these essays. Although globalization is a powerful force, national institutions and actors are not altogether powerless. * Middle East Business Review *
valuable compendium * W.R. Garside, University of Birmingham, Business History, April 1997 *
the book comprises a highly stimulating and thought-provoking collection of essays ... it can be recommended to all those interested in the labour management implications of economic internationalisation * Andrew Pendleton, University of Bradford Management Centre, Middle East Business Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1997 *
This book offers a significant contribution to an increasingly important subject of study. The essays in this book are uniformly well written, well researched and of high quality, reflecting the work of authors who are without exception well-respected experts in their various areas of concentration. Jacoby and colleagues are to be commended for a first-rate book in a new area of research , a book that deserves to be widely read (and used for teaching) by those interested in the place of labor in the new global economy, - Lower Turner. Cornell University.

Contributors 1: Sanford M. Jacoby: Social Dimensions of Global Economic Integration I. Industrial Relations Consequences 2: Christopher L. Erickson and Sarosh C. Kuruvilla: Labor Cost Incentives for Capital Mobility in the European Community 3: Daniel J.B. Mitchell: Employee Benefits in Europe and the United States 4: Peter Lange, Michael Wallerstein, and Miriam Golden: The End of Corporatism? Wage Setting in the Nordic and Germanic Countries 5: George Tsebelis and Peter Lange: Strikes Around the World: A Game Theoretic Approach 6: Ruth Milkman: The Impact of Foreign Investment on U.S. Industrial Relations: The Case of California's Japanese-Owned Plants II. Policy Issues 7: Michael Storper: Boundaries, Compartments, and Markets: Paradoxes of Industrial Relations in Growth Pole Regions of France, Italy, and the United States 8: Kenneth L. Sokoloff: Some Thoughts and Evidence on Industrial Policy: Industrialization in South Korea and Mexico 9: Jeffry A. Frieden: Labor and the Politics of Exchange Rates: The Case of the European Monetary System Index

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The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy by Sanford M. Jacoby (Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, University of California, Los Angleles)

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Sanford M. Jacoby (Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, University of California, Los Angleles)

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Oxford University Press Inc

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1995-05-04

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246

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The Workers of Nations by Sanford M. Jacoby (Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, University of California, Los Angleles)

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The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy by Sanford M. Jacoby (Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, Professor of Human Resources and Human Systems Development, University of California, Los Angleles)

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