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EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS By the Industrial Democracy in Europe (IDE). International Research Group, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981, 277 pp., $45

This is one of two volumes written by a large team of scholars from 12 different countries. The book provides background on the industrial relations systems in each of these countries as a companion to the other volume which is entitled Industrial Democracy in Europe. The study on which these two books is based is described as ’the largest collaborative inter-disciplinary piece of social science research ever conducted’. To support this contention, the authors note that the study took seven years to complete, involved 30 research workers from all the major countries in Western Europe (as well as Yugoslavia and Israel), and drew on data from 8000 interviews in 134 separate organisations. It may therefore disappoint many readers to discover that the most significant findings are that industrial democracy is mainly conditioned by the socio-political environment and institutional factors, and that, on the whole, the more participation people experience, the more they tend to want!