Employment Relations & Rights in the Global Automotive Industry‪.‬

Introduction Changes in the international economy that are commonly referred to as globalization have consequences for national patterns of employment relations. There are, however, competing views about globalization's significance and the types of changes it is likely to produce. Some have argued that globalization produces convergence in labour standards across countries and regions, while others have suggested that the pressures associated with globalization are refracted through national level institutional arrangements, resulting in continued diversity. However, empirical studies of comparative changes in employment relations provide little support for either of these views revealing a complex pattern of both continuity and change across countries (Lansbury et al. 2007).