Includes bibliographical references and index.

The transformation of employment regimes : a world-wide challenge / Katherine V.W. Stone & Harry Arthurs -- Changes in the labor market and the nature of employment in western countries / Morley Gunderson -- Labor market regulation and the global economic crisis / Robert Kuttner -- The decline of the standard contract of employment in the United States : a socio-regulatory perspective / Katherine V. W. Stone -- Burying caesar : what was the standard employment contract? / Mark Freedland -- "The employment contract is dead : hurrah for the work contract!" : a European perspective / Bruno Caruso -- Erosion, exhaustion, or renewal? : new forms of collective bargaining in Germany / Thomas Haipeter -- Flexibility and security in post-standard employment relations : the case of the Netherlands / Jelle Visser -- Regional and local level experiments for labor market policy in Europe / Ida Regalia -- New forms of dispute resolution in an era of unstable and diversified employment : why did Japan introduce the labor tribunal system? / Takashi Araki -- Organizational primacy after the demise of the organizational career : employment conflict in a post-standard contract world / Alexander J.S. Colvin -- Flexibility and security in employment regulation : what can be learned from the Danish case? / Thomas Bredgaard -- The regulation of private sector and public sector supply chains : an australian contribution to cross-national legal learning / Michael Rawling & John Howe -- Organizing non-standard workers in Japan : the role of old players and new players / Keisuke Nakamura & Michio Nitta -- Safety nets and transition assistance : continuity and change in a "liberal" welfare state / Anthony O'Donnell -- Flexible work, flexible pensions : labor market change and the evolution of retirement savings / Kendra Strauss -- New approaches to work-family balance and gender equality : pension reform and antidiscrimination law / Julie C. Suk -- Social rights in changing labor markets : caring for caregivers in the European Union / Julia L�opez, Consuelo Chacartegui, & C�esar G. Cant�on -- Cross-national legal learning : the uses of comparative labor knowledge, law and policy / Harry Arthurs -- The decline in the standard employment contract: a review of the evidence / Katherine V.W. Stone.

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