VOLUME 19

ARTICLES

Light From a Dead Sun: The Japanese Lifetime Employment System and Weimar Labor Law
David Kettler and Charles T. Tackney

LEASED WORKERS AND THE LAW

Legitimizing the Triangular Employment Relationship: Emerging International Labour Standards From a Comparative Perspective
Leah F. Vosko

A Comment on "Legitimising the Triangular Employment Relationship"
Anne Trebilcock

Leased Workers:  Vulnerability and the Need for Special Legislation
Steven L. Willborn

Italy's New Law on Promotion of Employment: An Explanation and Summary
Marco Biagi and Tiziano Treu

BOOK REVIEWS

New Patterns of Collective Labour Law in Central Europe, Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Poland, edited by Umberto Carabelli and Silvana Sciarra
reviewed by Orsolya Farkas

Acquiring Skills: Market Failures, Their Symptoms and Policy Responses, edited by Alison L. Booth and Dennis J. Snower
reviewed by Christina Cregan

Change at Work, edited by Peter Cappelli, Laurie Bassi, Harry Katz, David Knoke, Paul Osterman, and Michael Useem
reviewed by Paula Voos

The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture and Justice in America, edited by John David Skrentny
reviewed by Peter Gahan

Working Under Different Rules, edited by Richard B. Freeman
reviewed byJoe Isaac

Swings and Misses:  Moribund Labor Relations in Professional Baseball, edited by Kenneth M. Jennings
reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

CAPSULE REVIEWS

Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialized Market Economies, 6th edition, edited by Roger Blanpain and Chris Engels

International Labour and Employment Laws, Vol. 1, edited by William L. Keller et al.

Labor Standards and Trade Agreements:  U.S. Experience
Christopher L. Erickson and Daniel J.B. Mitchell

Labor Rights in Chile and NAFTA Labor Standards: Questions of Compatibility on the Eve of Free Trade
Carol Pier

THE U.S. "EMPLOYMENT MIRACLE": EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION AND JOB GENERATION

The Job Creation Barrier
Robert Choate

The U.S. Employment Miracle in Comparative Perspective
John T. Addison

Comments on Alan B. Krueger and Joern-Steffen Pischke:  Observations and Conjectures on the U.S. Employment Miracle
Jan Herin

The Need for an Expanded Conception of Labor Market Flexibility; Comments on "Observations and Conjectures on U.S. Employment Miracle," by Alan Krueger and Joern-Steffen Pischke
Harry C. Katz

One More Time:  Labor Market Flexibility, Aggregate Demand, and Comparative Employment Growth in the U.S. and Europe
Sheldon Friedman and Christian Weller

Authors' Responses to Comments on:  "Observations and Conjectures to the U.S. Employment Miracle"
Alan B. Krueger and Joern-Steffen Pischke

REVIEW ESSAY

Continued Vocational Training in Europe
Helen Rainbird

BOOK REVIEWS

Trade Union Strategies in a Globalising Economy, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (Asia and Pacific Organisation)
reviewed by Richard N. Block

Workdays, Workhours and Work Schedules:  Evidence from the United States and Germany, edited by Daniel S. Hammermesh
reviewed by Robert Drago

ARTICLES

From the General Rules on Data Protection to a Specific Regulation of the Use of Employee Data: Policies and Constraints of the European Union
Spiros Simitis

Privacy in the Workplace and the Impact of European Convention Incorporation on United Kingdom Labour Law
John D.R. Craig

The Role of the Basic Public Pension in a Retirement Income Security System
Brian J. Kreiswirth

REVIEW ESSAYS

European Unemployment:  The Role of Labor Market Regulation?
Peter G. Gahan

Whence, What and Whither Japan?
John O. Haley

BOOK REVIEWS

European Community Labour Law: Principles and Perspectives, edited by Paul Davies, Antoine Lyon-Caen, Silvana Sciarra, and Spiros Simitis
reviewed by Benjamin Aaron

Poverty and Inequality:  The Political Economy of Redistribution, edited by John Neil
reviewed by Jeff Borland

The Australasian Labour Law Reforms:  Australia and New Zealand at the End of the Twentieth Century, edited by Dennis R. Nolan
reviewed by Anna Chapman

Local Orders:  Dynamics of Organized Action, edited by Erhard Friedberg, translated by Emoretta Yang
reviewed by Daniel G. Gallagher

Negotiating the New Germany:  Can Social Partnership Survive?, edited by Lowell Turner
reviewed by Berndt Keller

Union Mergers in Hard Times:  The View From Five Countries, edited by Gary N. Chaison
reviewed by Magnus Sverke

CAPSULE REVIEWS

The Realities of Work, edited by Mike Noon and Paul Blyton

Labor Law and Industrial Relations in Finland, 2nd edition, edited by A.J. Suviranta

Between Bargaining and Politics: An Introduction to European Labor Relations, 2nd edition, edited by Hans Slomp

[PDF] Labor Arbitration Under Fire, edited by James L. Stern and Joyce M. Najita

[PDF] Law, Power and Poverty, edited by Asbjorn Kjonstad and John H. Veit Wilson

ARTICLES

Flexibility: Potentials and Challenges for Labor Law
Reinhold Fahlbeck

Towards Effective and Efficient Enforcement of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation:  Two Paths to Enlightenment
Neil Gunningham

Unemployment Compensation in the Group of Seven Nations:  An International Comparison
James R. Storey and Jennifer A. Neisner

REVIEW ESSAY

After Lean Production
Steve Babson

BOOK REVIEWS

Management Strategies of Multinational Corporations in Asian Markets, edited by Yoshiaki Takahashi, Minoru Murata, and Khondaker M. Rahman
reviewed by Man Kee Choe

Redefining Labour Law:  New Perspectives on the Future of Teaching and Research, edited by Richard Mitchell
reviewed by John T. Delaney

Fighting for Partnership, Labor and Politics in Unified Germany, edited by Lowell Turner
reviewed by Carola Frege

The Youth Labor Market in Britain:  The Role of Intervention, edited by B.M. Deakin
reviewed by Phillip Mizen

Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia, edited by Vedi R. Hadiz
reviewed by Tan Ern Ser

Labor Law at the Crossroads; Changing Employment Relationships, Studies in Honor of Benjamin Aaron, edited by Janice Bellace and Max G. Rood
reviewed by Clyde W. Summers

CAPSULE REVIEWS

Governing Ideas:  Strategies for Innovation in France and Germany, edited by J. Nicholas Ziegler

Japan Works:  Power and Paradox in Postwar Industrial Relations, edited by John Price

Telecommunications:  Restructuring Work and Employment Relations Worldwide, edited by Harry C. Katz

The National Government and Social Welfare: What Should Be the Federal Role, edited by John E. Hansan and Robert Morris