In the past year a number of major comparative studies of industrial relations have been published, and five of these are reviewed here. All the texts agree that global economic integration has posed serious challenges to national industrial relations systems, but beyond this their analyses differ sharply. The author examines in detail the themes of trade union decline and human resource management, and considers how far these may be seen as connected elements in a new industrial relations paradigm.
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