List of Figures and Tables
List of Common Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Preface

Introduction
1 Work, the Employment Relationship and the Field of Industrial Relations
Trevor Colling and Michael Terry

Section One-British Industrial Relations in Comparative Context
2 British Industrial Relations: Between Security and Flexibility
Colin Crouch
3 British Industrial Relations: The European Dimension
Richard Hyman

Section Two-Actors
4 Management: Caught Between Competing Views of the Organization
Keith Sisson and John Purcell
5 State, Capital and Labour Relations in Crisis
Jason Heyes and Peter Nolan
6 Trade Unions: Power and Influence in a Changed Context
Melanie Simms and Andy Charlwood

Section Three-Contexts
7 Public Sector Industrial Relations: The Challenge of Modernization
Stephen Bach
8 Industrial Relations in the Private Sector
James Arrowsmith
9 Multinational Companies: Transforming National Industrial Relations?
Paul Marginson and Guglielmo Meardi
10 Industrial Relations in Small Firms
Monder Ram and Paul Edwards

Section Four-Processes
11 Negotiation and Collective Bargaining
William Brown
12 Employee Representation
Michael Terry
13 The Changing Legal Framework of Employment Relations
Linda Dickens and Mark Hall
14 Legal Institutions and the Regulation of Workplaces
Trevor Colling and Linda Dickens

Section Five-Outcomes
15 Pay and Working Time: Shifting Contours of the Employment Relationship
Damien Grimshaw and Jill Rubery
16 Industrial Relations and Economic Performance
Paul Edwards and Sukanya Sengupta
17 Skills Policy and the Displacement of Industrial Relations: The Elephant in the Corner?
Ewart Keep, Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne
18 Equality and Diversity: The Ultimate Industrial Relations Concern
Deborah Dean and Sonia Liff
Index