Transnational industrial relations: the impact of multi-national corporations and economic regionalism on industrial relations a symposium held at Geneva by the International Institute for Labour Studies

X 1 Even the modern theoretical treatment of these issues, e.g. by J. Viner: The Customs Union Issue (New York, Carnegie Endowment oflnternational Peace, 1950), barely goes beyond this basic dichotomy. 2 The trade diversion caused by the functioning of the E.E.C.-especially through its preferential arrangements with associated member countries -conflicts with the basic GATT doctrine, i.e. the achievement of maximum growth benefits from world trade and their optimal distribution. 3 See Chapter 3. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Basic Trends Affecting the Location of Decision-Making Powers in Industrial Relations....Pages 5-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Towards Research on and Development of Nations, Unions and Firms as Worldwide Institutions....Pages 21-50 The Strength of International Regionalism....Pages 51-64 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 The Challenge of Multi-National Corporations and Regional Economic Integration to the Trade Unions, their Structure and their International Activities....Pages 70-96 International Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining....Pages 97-108 Factors Influencing the Organisation and Style of Management and their Effect on the Pattern of Industrial Relations in Multi-National Corporations....Pages 109-132 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 Multi-National Corporation, International Union and International Collective Bargaining: A Case Study of the Political, Social, and Economic Implications of the 1967 U.A.W.-Chrysler Agreement....Pages 137-172 Multi-National Corporations, Trade Unions and Industrial Relations: A Case Study of Jamaica....Pages 173-194 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Multi-National Public Corporations for Development and Integration in Latin America....Pages 199-224 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 Economic Reforms and Labour Relations in the Socialist Countries of Eastern Europe....Pages 229-239 Some Possible Implications of East-West Enterprise-to-Enterprise Agreements....Pages 240-255 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 Regional Economic Integration as the Creation of an Environment Favourable to Transnational Industrial Organisation in the E.E.C.....Pages 263-274 Efforts to bring about Community- Level Collective Bargaining in the Coal and Steel Community and the E.E.C.....Pages 275-308 European Regional Economic Integration and Collective Bargaining....Pages 309-320 International Collective Bargaining and Regional Economic Integration: Some Reflections on Experience in the E.E.C.....Pages 321-340 Towards an Extension of Multi-National Corporations of European Origin: Implications for Industrial Relations....Pages 341-350 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 Summary of the Symposium Discussions....Pages 351-422 Front Matter....Pages 423-423 The Future of Transnational Industrial Relations: A Tentative Framework for Analysis....Pages 423-446 Back Matter....Pages 447-480