Describes work organization, skill formation, remuneration systems, staffing arrangements and employment security, and enterprise governance and employee-management relations in seven countries: the United States, Australia, Germany, Sweden ...

Harry C. Katz is Associate Professor of Industrial Relations, Sloan School of Management, MIT.

This book, originally published in 1967, takes the automobile industry experience as a basis for a wider view of industrial relations, trends and developments of the 1950s and 60s.

Annotation This book is an analysis of the relationship among collective bargaining, firm competitiveness, and employment protection/creation in the United States.