ABSTRACT
We have undertaken elsewhere* to explain the decline in strike activity which has occurred in numerous countries. But this decline has not proceeded evenly, nor has it been experienced everywhere. As we have seen, there are four distinctive patterns of industrial conflict among the countries we have studied systematically, and three of the countries are best described as special cases. Presumably there are reasons why strikes in Denmark are so unlike those in Finland, why industrial conflict in the United States is a different matter from that in France. The purpose of the present chapter is to identify these reasons by describing the main influences on relative strike activity with varying incidence in the different nations.
