Question 1

What is comparative labor relations and why is it important for developing a broader understanding of labor relations?

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Question 2

Describe the similarities and differences between the Canadian labor relations system and the U.S. labor relations systems.

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Question 3

How does France's labor movement differ from that of the U.S.?

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Question 4

_______________________________ is a Japanese work arrangement in which employees are normally not laid off and stay with a single firm through their entire work life until retirement.

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Question 5

The primary institutional feature of Japanese labor relations is _______________________________ unionism in which a union represents all workers at a single employer.

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Question 6

Employee representation on _________________________________ is an important aspect of codetermination.

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Question 7

In 1980 Lech Walesa led 17,000 Polish workers to conduct a sit-down strike to demand the right to form free labor unions independent of the Communist Party. This has become known as the ____________________________ movement.

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Question 8

Explain the British system of voluntarism and describe the legal restrictions placed on labor-management relations. In what way does the Irish labor relations system differ from that of the British?

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Question 9

The Mexican system of labor relations is an example of the gap that can exist between the legal protections provided to workers within a given country and the actual rights that exist. Describe the rights granted by Mexican law and discuss how those rights differ from the reality of the workers' lives.

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Question 10

The traditional goal of the Swedish labor movement was a _________________________ that addressed equal pay for equal work across companies.

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Question 11

Explain the concept of codetermination and works councils as they apply to German labor relations.

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Question 12

Centralized collective bargaining in Germany is combined with an institutionalized system of employee voice in the workplace known as _______________________________ that entitles employees to participate in decision making.

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Question 13

A German _______________________________ is a workplace-level committee of employees granted codetermination, consultation and information rights and elected to represent all workers in dealings with management.

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Question 14

What is sector bargaining and how is it important to German labor relations? How is sector bargaining changing in response to the pressures of globalization?

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Question 15

The main feature of labor relations in Australia is a centralized _______________________________ system in which federal or state arbitration commissions issue settlements that define minimum standards for pay and working conditions.

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Question 16

In the Soviet Union _______________________________ unionism created two roles for unions: to facilitate the state's production goals and to protect individual workers from abusive managers.

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Question 17

In China, there is only one legal union federation known as the _______________________________.

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Question 18

The _______________________________ thesis predicts that labor relations practices and policies across countries will converge to a common set of practices and policies and national differences will disappear.

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Question 19

In Germany, each major industry has a dominant employer association and union that engage in _______________________________, or industry-wide bargaining, to produce a contract for the entire industry.

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Question 20

A works council is a workplace-level committee of employees granted codetermination, _______________________________ and information rights and elected to represent all workers in dealings with management.

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Quiz 12: Comparative Labor Relations