Frontmatter -- Editors’ Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1 Tripartite Social Policy-Making: An Overview -- 2 Industrial Relations and Economic Performance -- 3 International Pressures on Industrial Relations: Macroeconomics and Social Concertation -- 4 Economic Flexibility and Social Solidarity -- 5 From National Corporatism to Transnational Pluralism: European Interest Politics and the Single Market -- 6 Weakness of Pluralism in Latin America – What Are the Prospects for Social Concertation? -- 7 Social Concertation in Mexico -- 8 European Labor Relations and the Prospects of Tripartism -- 9 Macro-economic Policies and Collective Bargaining in Ireland -- 10 Social Concertation in Australian Industrial Relations -- 11 For a New Income Policy. Growth, Prices and Wages in the Italian Model -- 12 Social Concertation in Latin America -- 13 The Demise of Concerted Practices and Negotiated Economy in Sweden -- 14 Structural Adaptation of the Japanese Economy and Labor Market -- Notes on Contributors