Contributions in Labor Studies, No. 43 (ISSN: 0886-8239)

  Greenwood Press. Westport, Conn. 1993. 320 pages
  LC 92-9264. ISBN 0-313-28547-0. CWT/ $49.95
  Available     (Info. Updated 11/95)
  1993 Bar-Niv Prize for the Best Manuscript on Israeli Industrial
  Relations

                   ** Description **

   According to Chermesh, the Israeli industrial relations system
  has developed as a state within a state, having, by the mid-1980s,
  gained a high level of autonomy and detachment from political and
  economic constraints. By tracing the evolution of the system from
  the mid-1960s, Chermesh demonstrates the limits of economic and
  legal perspectives as analytical tools in the field of collective
  industrial relations. Instead, he stresses the importance of the
  institutional setting for planning and implementing sound
  industrial relations policy.

                  ** Contents **

    --  General Introduction
    --  The Israeli irs (industrial relations system)
    --  The New Economic Policy and the Autonomy of the Israeli irs
    --  Strike Management: Norm and Practice
    --  Strikes in an Action Framework: Israeli Strikes and Their
        Context
    --  Strikes and IRS Autonomy: A Hierarchical Multi-Level Model
        and Its Demonstration on Israeli Data
    --  Strikes as Social Problems: A Social Problem Matrix Approach
    --  Strikes: The Issue of Social Responsibility
    --  Epilogue
    --  Appendix: Three-Dimensional Diagrams
    --  References
    --  Index

                   ** Author Biography **

  RAN CHERMESH is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behavioral
  Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. His writings
  on industrial relations have appeared in the Journal of Management
  Studies, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Social
  Science Research, and other journals in the field.

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