This analysis of the changing process of union-employer collective bargaining represents the first-person views of some of the most prominent figures in U.S. labor relations. Based on a series of addresses and discussions at the Institute of Collective Bargaining, each part of the book contains two chapters that sharply contrast the views of representatives of labor, business, government, and other "third parties." The contributors discuss fundamental domestic and international economic and political trends, as well as the most salient contemporary issues, including inflation, unemployment, automation, productivity, foreign trade, multinational corporations, government intervention, and worker alienation.

Havelick, Franklin J.

Foreword -- Introduction -- The State of the System -- Input: Labor, Management, and Government -- Output: Collective Bargaining and Productivity -- The Economic Dimension -- Collective Bargaining and Automation -- Collective Bargaining and Inflation -- The Political Dimension -- Depoliticizing the Bargaining Process -- Repoliticizing the Bargaining Process -- The International Dimension -- Bargaining in the World Marketplace -- Bargaining with the Multinational Corporation -- The Emerging System -- Putting National Employment Policy on the Bargaining Table -- Putting the Quality of Working Life on the Bargaining Table -- Appendixes -- The Personal Dimension-Biographies of the Contributors -- The Statistical Dimension-Collective Bargaining Data* -- Members of the Board of the Institute of Collective Bargaining and Group Relations, Inc.