Originally published: 2014.

"First published in paperback 2016." --verso page.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Comparative employment systems -- Defining the field. Institutions and employment relations -- Convergence and divergence in employment relations -- Institutions and employment relations : alternative accounts, new insights. Getting down to business : varieties of capitalism and employment relations -- Business systems theory and employment relations -- Developments and extensions of ̀regulation theory' and employment relations -- Capitalist diversity, work and employment relations -- Ownership rights and employment relations -- Varieties of institutional theory in comparative employment relations -- Institutions and the industrial relations tradition -- Conflict, order, and change -- Comparative evidence. Employment relations in liberal market economies -- Social democratic capitalism -- Employment regimes, wage setting, and monetary union in continental Europe -- Continuity and change in Asian employment systems : a comparison of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan -- Economies undergoing long transition : employment relations in Central and Eastern Europe -- Employment relations in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa -- The left turn in Latin America : consequences for employment relations -- Developing societies : Asia -- Employment relations in the BRICS countries -- Substantive themes. Globalization and labour market hovernance -- Work, bodies, care : gender and employment in a global world -- Where are the voices? New directions in voice and engagement across the globe -- Insecure employment : diversity and change -- The migration-development nexus, women workers, and transnational employment relations -- The neo-liberal turn and the implications for labour -- Reflections. The State and employment Relations -- Unions : practices and prospects -- Institutions, management strategies, and HRM -- New actors in employment relations -- The future of employment relations in advanced capitalism : inexorable decline?

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