Employment relations in a changing world economy - Richard Locke, Michael Piore, and Thomas Kochan 1. The limits of diffusion: Recent developments in industrial relations and human practices - Marc Weinstein and Thomas Kochan 2. Change and continuity in british industrial relations: "strategic choice" or muddling through"? - Keith Sisson 3. Managed decentralization? Recent trends in Australian Industrial Relations and Human Resource Policies - Russell Lansbury and John Niland 4. Developments in industrial relations and human resource paractices in Canada: An update from the 1980s - Noah Meltz and Anil Verma 5. Between voluntarism and industrialization: Industrial relations and human resource practices in Italy - Ida Regalia and Marino Regini 6. Inertial Choices: An overview of Spanish human resources, practices and policies - Victor Pérez - Diaz and Juan Carlos Rodríguez 7. Industrial relations and human resources in France - Jean Saglio 8. Continuity and Chande in the "german model" of industrial relations - Martin Baethge and Harald Wolf 9. The Swedish Model: Demise or reconfiguration? - Andrew Martin 10. A social democartic order inder pressure: Norwegian employment relations in the eighties - Karl Henrik Sivesind, Ragnvald Kalleberg, Svein Hovde, and Arvid Fennefoss 11. Developments in industrial relations and human resource prectices in japan - keisuke Nakamura and Michio Nitta 12. Conclusion: The transformation of industrial relations? A Cross-National review of the evidence - Richard Locke and Thomas Kochan