This book owes its inception and much of its organization to the writer's experience in teaching a course on "Industrial Sociology" for several years at The Pen

It cannot be denied that in recent decades, for many if not most people, work has become unstable and insecure, with serious risk and few benefits for workers.

The Role of the State and Industrial Relations', using a comparative approach (the European Union, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, China, the United State