Innovation and Employee Participation Through Works Councils: International Case Studies Book

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1	Introduction	1
2	Transnational works councils and macro European developments	29
3	European works councils and direct participation: the 'dual shift' as a challenge to the German industrial relations system	49
4	Information exchange at the European level: Unilever as a case for European industrial relations	67
5	Swiss case study	87
6	Workers' participation in Ireland and the Guinness Brewery Council	100
7	Informal and statutory participation in Greece: general trends and two indicative cases	129
8	The need to change: labour and industrial relations in the Italian telecommunications sector	153
9	The emergence of new forms of workers' participation in central and east European countries	169
10	Limits and possibilities of participation of employees at industrial enterprises in east Germany	190
11	Slovenia: from self-management to co-determination	210
12	Employee participation in privatised and private firms: the Polish experience	231
13	Workers' councils and self-management in state-owned enterprises: the Czecho-slovak case	243
14	The United States: extract from the Dunlop Commission Report - employee participation	257
15	Emerging models of worker participation and representation in the US	272
16	Empowering labour? The origins and practice of joint consultation in Hong Kong	280
17	Workers' participation under structural adjustment: for whose interests? The case study of a Tanzanian private enterprise	307
18	Worker participation and collective bargaining in a democratic South Africa	332
19	Consultative committees in the Australian steel industry	358
20	Workplace reform and employee participation in New Zealand	389
21	Conclusion	411
	Index	438