Collective labour law is, for the most part, national law. It is often
the result of social struggle and political compromise occurring in the
national context. Unlike other fields of private law, it has not been
the object of legal harmonisation, at either international or European
levels. However, as national frontiers progressively open up for goods
and services, collective labour law has become increasingly exposed to
international and supranational law. This book contains the papers
presented at an international conference held at the Max Planck
Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in 2014. The
authors look, from a comparative perspective, at current developments in
the fields of collective bargaining and employee participation in
several European countries and in China. They analyse the extent to
which differences between the national legal systems still prevail and
whether common features are about to emerge. With contributions by Chen
Su, Orjan Edstrom, Matteo Fornasier, Robbert H. van het Kaar, Li
Jianfei, Ulla Liukkunen, Louise Merrett, Etienne Pataut, Achim Seifert,
Bernd Waas, Xie Zengyi, Zhang Hui