ABSTRACT
Potential differences between national and Europeanised industrial relations
Industrial relations at plant and company level have been subject to considerable changes in all the countries examined. The increasing internationalisation of companies is undermining systems of worker representation and co-determination which, regardless of their individual characteristics, are important elements of the post-war compromise between Capital and Labour. All these systems are based on a national framework and allow limited scope for international regulation of industrial relations at plant and company level. In the current period of economic and social development, however, the international dimension takes on a considerably higher importance than in the past.
