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Worker Militancy and its Consequences, New Directions in Western Industrial Relations. Recognized authorities in the field of industrial relations evaluate recent labor unrest in seven European countries, Canada, and the U.S., including strikes, internal union controversies, domestic and international trade union developments, revisions in collective bargaining institutions, and changes in trade union behavior, philosophy, and strength. Contents include: Great Britain: toward the social contract; Italy: creating a new industrial relations system for the bottom; the Netherlands: from an ordered harmonic to a bargaining relationship; Belgium: collective bargaining and concertation mold: Sweden: labor reformism reshapes the system; France: elitist society inhibits articulated bargaining; U.S.: a time for reassessment. Industrialization and Labor in the Northern European Coalfield: A Comparative Regional Analysis. (In progress.) This is a longterm research project which will examine the social and political development of one economic region which stretches from northern France, through southeastern Belgium into the Ruhr Valley of Germany. The main focus of the study will be on the social structure, political behavior and popular culture of the working class in this region and on class relations between workers and the local middle classes. The study will in-tegrate secondary materials with a variety of local case studies based on such primary materials as census schedules, marriage registers, church records, company archives, police and strike records and newspapers. One of the main aims of the study will be to determine whether or not social and political development followed regional, economic, or national political lines. progress.) on how and why ethnic groups become occupationally typed: comparison with and This essay analyzes the Socialist Party's critique of the centralization of urban municipal government, as well as examining the social basis of voting behavior in a referendum that culminated in the adoption of the commission plan. Particular emphasis is placed on the differentiation between various working-class districts. It argues that second generation Americans living in the "zone of emergence" were more likely to support Socialists than were immigrants residing in the central residential core.