Detailed database compiled by Jelle Visser at Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS). Covers 55 countries from 1960-2018
and four key elements of modern political economies: trade unionism, wage setting, state intervention and social pacts. The database contains annual data for all OECD and EU member states and some emerging economies Brazil; China; India; Indonesia; Russia; and South Africa.
EU agency established in 1975 to improve living and working conditions in partnership with governments, employers, trade unions. Useful survey material, especially European Company Survey and European Working Conditions Survey. Also Industrial Relations Country Profiles.
The UK professional organisation for HR. The CIPD survey reports are a useful series on topics of interest, and most are freely accessible (registration required).
Major centre for the study of industrial relations. Full text of Warwick papers in IR series available and the online textbook Employment relations matters.
Federation representing 6.5 million unionised workers in the UK. See also the employers' federation - Confederation of British Industry and the conciliation service ACAS.
Periodic survey that was conducted by the previous Dept. for Business, Innovation & Skills, as well as the 2000 Baseline study. Data for all surveys to date is easily searchable within the UK Data Archive.
