Employee Participation and Collective Bargaining in Europe and China

by Jürgen Basedow, Matteo Fornasier (Editor), Ulla Liukkunen (Editor)

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, Örjan Edström, Matteo Fornasier, Robbert H. van het Kaar, Li Jianfei, Ulla Liukkunen, Louise Merrett, Etienne Pataut, Achim Seifert, Bernd Waas, Xie Zengyi, Zhang Hui

257 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

Jürgen Basedow is a German legal scholar, since 1997 director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and a professor at the University of Hamburg. He studied at the University of Hamburg, the University of Geneva and the University of Pavia. In 1981 he earned a Master of Laws degree of the Harvard University.
In 1987 he got an appointment as professor at the University of Augsburg, where he was dean from 1993 to 1994. From 1995 until 1997 he taught at the Free University of Berlin.
He was also visiting professor at the University of Ferrara Graves, the University of Genoa, the University of Lyon III, the University of Oxford, the University Panthéon-Assas, the University of Pittsburgh, the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Tunis and the New York University.