About the Book: Industrial Relation in Asian Perspective: Trend and
Transformation
Industrial Relations in Asian Perspective: Trend and Transformation Rapid
globalisation of national economies and the growth of multinational corporations
throughout the world is forcing greater competitiveness and new approaches to
the management of labour. Relatively less attention has been paid to how
industrial relations systems have changed in the developing nations of Asia.
Given that several Asian countries have seen considerable changes in their
industrial relations systems in the 1990s, the book attempts to understand the
nature of the changes, and to evaluate whether or not they amount to fundamental
transformations. The focus is on the managerial