Carola Frege is Professor of International Employment Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

John Kelly is Professor of Industrial Relations at Birkbeck, University of London.

Part 1 Comparative employment relations

1. Introduction: global challenges at work - John Kelly and Carola Frege

2 Theoretical perspectives on comparative employment relations - Carola Frege and John Kelly

Part 2 Employment relations challenges in comparative perspective

3 Globalization and employment relations - Sarosh Kuruvilla

4 Job quality, work intensity and working time: some cross-national comparisons on the experience of work - Patrick McGovern

5 Inequalities and employment relations - Jenny Rodriguez and Jill Rubery

6 Labour migration - Carola Frege

7 Work and employment practices in comparative perspective - John Godard

8 Employment relations and economic performance - Damian Grimshaw and Susan Hayter

9 Employment relations, welfare and politics - Anke Hassel

Part 3 Regulating the employment relationship

10 Individual employee rights at work - Cynthia Estlund

11 Collective representation at work: institutions and dynamics - Richard Hyman and Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick

12 Regional regulation: the EU - Paul Marginson

13 International regulation: standards and voluntary practices - Michael Fichter

Part 4 Employment regulation in national contexts

14 The United States - Gerald Friedman and John Godard

15 The United Kingdom - John Kelly

16 France - Nick Parsons

17 Germany - Martin Behrens

18 Sweden - Torsten Svensson

19 Japan - D. Hugh Whittaker

20 Brazil - Mark S. Anner and João Paulo Cândia Veiga

21 Russia - Sarah Ashwin and Irina Kozina

22 India - Vidu Badigannavar and Dona Ghosh

23 China - Mingwei Liu

24 South Africa - Roger Southall