ABSTRACT
The principal aim of this volume is to provide detailed accounts of the policies various countries have pursued towards transnational corporations over the last thirty years or so.1 Accordingly Chapters 2 to 6 concentrate respectively on the recent policies of Japan, France, Germany, the United States and Britain. They focus on practical details and provide a chronological analysis for each country. Although our interest is with the attitudes of governments, we also reflect wider concerns and the roles of other groups, for example, trade unions, business and opposition parties. We then turn, in Chapter 7, to a specific topic that spans all five of the countries we have studied; we identify the issues associated with transnational which appear to have (or by implication have not) concerned governments in each of the countries. Analysing such issues is our secondary aim.
