Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: -- Multinationals and employment practices across Europe -- Chapter 1 -- Constructing employment practices in MNCs: a framework for analysis -- Chapter 2 -- One multinational, four host countries: on diversity in subsidiary employment practices -- Chapter 3 -- Channelling corporate values and interests: social interaction within the multinational company -- Chapter 4 -- Building a local corporate presence: social interaction between the MNC and local societies -- Chapter 5 -- From bargaining to dancing: social interaction between the multinational company and local trade unions -- Chapter 6 -- The social foundations of trade union influence: cross-border interaction of trade unions and the European Works Council -- Chapter 7 -- Accounting for diversity: company interests, host-country effects and social interaction -- Chapter 8 -- Conclusions: multinationals, employment practices and institutional change from below.

"The book offers an inquiry into the construction of employment practices in a multinational company across Western and Eastern Europe. In the complex corporate and host-country influences, social interaction between the firm and local actors is presented as the underlying social mechanism through which work practices are constructed"-- Provided by publisher.