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Under the aegis of one of the West's more successful and enduring social contracts of the postwar period, manufacturing unions and the peak union council in Australia have launched a comprehensive campaign, including targeted industry policy and direct intervention at enterprise level, to rescue and modernize the country's crumbling manufacturing sector. This new unionism confounds industrialrelations theorists' pessimism over the movement's ability to go beyond its craft origins to directly address managerial issues. But beyond this, the movement is demonstrating its comparative advantage over government and corporate management in making and implementing industry policy, given the traditionalism of government organs, corporate particularism, the structural and institutional fragmentation of industry, and the substantive requirements of an effective industry policy. If the union movement does represent the primary bearer of an industrial renaissance in the future, then the latter is likely to imply basic organizational change for industry and the unions themselves, including a radical shift in power to organized labour over strategic decision-making and the production process at enterprise, industry and national levels.

The aim of this research is to examine the public policy influences on academic investigations that contain a substantial convergence among human resource management–industrial relations and corporate social responsibility–stakeholder approach by means of using bibliometric and content analyses of relevant publications in the Scopus and Science Direct databases. Totally, 160 publications were subject to bibliometric, cluster, and summative content analyses. In this context, this study claims that public policy in the EU influences academic investigations and scholars. The investigation draws attention to the importance of active participation of different public institutions and key stakeholders (e.g., trade unions, works councils, academic associations) that prepare a basis for collaboration, solidarity, and communication for strengthening EU social model, social dialogue, collective bargaining, and the protection of social rights. The research findings illuminate the fact that European public policies have significant effects on shaping and encouraging investigations that are considered within the scope of IR–HRM and CSR–SA. One of the most crucial recommendations of this study is that the investigations which are out of this framework can be considered quite idealistic. Therefore, researchers may attempt to publish more scientific investigations in frame of IR–HRM and CSR–SA to enhance the comprehensiveness and depth of these two clusters. © The Author(s) 2017. ; AB-967-462-281 -- This work was written in frame of a large-scale practical research project (Project Code: ICU-DUPA/2015-EUP-01) that is conducted at Istanbul Commerce University, Research and Project Development Academy (DUPA), and Sakarya University Rectorate (Project No: AB-967-462-281). -- --

The author reviews economic studies addressing water use with the aim of identifying key empirical questions that are relevant to the estimation of the demand for water. In particular, the effect of price on demand is specified and the way in which the industrial use of water is characterised is explored; this is markedly different from domestic water use. The main conclusion is that more detailed knowledge is necessary to establish the response of industrial firms to changes in the price of water (or taxes), and thus to guarantee the efficient regulation of water resources.

European integration brings with it the pressure for an integrated, genuinely European industrial relations system. This system would differ from North American & Pacific Rim systems in its high-skill, high-wage economy, less employer-driven mobility, normative ideas on social & industrial justice, & the sense of industrial relations as participating in public & political institutions, rather than as in individual rights. Whether an integrated European industrial order is formed from convergent development of national orders or from supranational institution building, the odds against integration are overwhelming. 37 References. Adapted from the source document.

Why high definition television policy was decided by the Federal Communications Commission rather than by Congress as part of industrial policy.

This thesis explores the impact international trade and commercial agreements had on the economic and industrial development of Cork during the first industrial revolution. From the Act of Union onwards Cork moved from a region where trade became increasingly reliant on Britain at the expense of trade that had been cultivated over the eighteenth century with the Americas and Europe. The legislative underpinnings of Cork's trade is the focus of this research and how this changed after the Act of Union. It begins by examining the transatlantic trade of Cork city and the issues faced in the West Indies trade due to the growth of the United States. It will also consider the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on Cork's trade with both the Americas and continental Europe. The conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars saw the United Kingdom negotiate treaties and agreements that would have a direct impact upon Cork's merchants. This thesis will address the degree to which the mercantile community in Cork were able to influence policy that directly impacted upon their trade networks. It will then examine the trade between Cork and the United Kingdom and assess the impact of the Union on the ability of Cork's merchants to affect political change. The operation of the Committee of Merchants in Cork is detailed and their responses to the changing nature of international trade. The thesis finishes by examining the underdevelopment of Cork's transportation networks. This work will place Cork's international trade in both its national and international context and argues that Cork's mercantile community were overly reliant on protectionist legislation to further Cork's trade as opposed to investment in industrial development. Volumetric data on the trade of Cork city has been transcribed and made available in a relational database to support the arguments made in this thesis and to facilitate future research on this subject. This database is accessible at http://modernirishvenice.com/.

Participation is developing its own mythology, with Germany, or Yugoslavia, becoming the Mecca, depending on the model of industrial democracy chosen. Britain, some observers claim, has de facto workers' control via shop-steward power. Can empirical research produce hard evidence, and sift realitiesfrom myths? The paper argues that we need a contingency theory of industrial democracy with appropriate organizational designs for each national setting; and that design and policy formulation should be more closely related. Participation, too, should take place in the designing process of systems.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- The Manufacturing Sector in Argentina at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Argentina at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century -- 3 The Manufacturing Sector in Argentina -- 4 Trade Balance of the Manufacturing Sector -- 5 Industrial Policy -- 6 Current Situation and New Possibilities -- References -- Structural Change and the Manufacturing Sector in the Brazilian Economy: 2000-2014 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Analytical Framework -- 3 The Brazilian Economy from 2000 to 2014 -- 3.1 Economic Growth -- 3.2 Structural Change -- 3.2.1 The Innovative Industry in the Brazilian Economy -- 3.2.2 Competitiveness in External and Internal Markets -- 3.2.3 The Density of Interindustry Relations -- 4 Conclusions/Main Results -- Appendix: Correspondence Tablea -- References -- The Manufacturing Sector in Mexico During the Neoliberal Period -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Neoliberal Restructuring of the Manufacturing Sector -- 2.1 The Precarization of Labor: Prelude and Finale of the Neoliberal Restructuring -- 2.2 Indiscriminate Nature and Stages of the External Opening -- 3 The External Opening of the Manufacturing Sector -- 3.1 The Early Opening of the Manufacturing Sector (1982-1993) -- 3.2 The Boom of Exports During the NAFTA -- 3.3 The Dependency on Imports and the Structural Deficit -- 4 The Structural Transformation of the Manufacturing Sector -- 4.1 Growth and Structural Change in the Manufacturing Sector -- 4.2 Investment and Productivity in the Manufacturing Sector -- 4.3 Precarization of Manufacturing Labor: Employment and Wages -- 5 The Manufacturing Export-Led Mexican Economy -- 6 Conclusions -- References.

AbstractFree trade doctrines have been questioned from the angle of their logical validity as well as relevance. Their replacement by New Trade Theories has been matched by important policy moves on strategic trade and industrial policy in advanced countries. These are defended by the advanced nations, both at inter‐governmental levels and in multilateral institutions, largely in the interest of big capital in industry and finance. However, the theoretically discarded principles of free trade are still in use to push trade liberalization in developing countries. An uneven power relation between the rich and poor nations of the world has generated this asymmetric combination of policies in the world economy. Neglect of the macroeconomic issues relating to the national as well as the world economy has led these theories and the related policies to ignore the concerns for growth as well as development.