REVIEW ARTICLE - ON FOUNDING CHOICES AND STRATEGIC CHOICE

This review article concerns both comparative texts with a focus on na tional industrial relations systems and works concerned with difficult ies faced by unions today. The author considers that one important asp ect to be taken into consideration, both in describing the systems and in assessing the present challenges, concerns the 'founding choices' which helped establish the modern institutional orders. She also sugge sts that more attention be given in comparative work to building up kn owledge in a cumulative way.