The Editors: György Széll is professor of sociology at the University of Osnabrück, and now also at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. He is co-chair of the international network Regional & Local Development of Work & Labour.
Carl-Heinrich Bösling is a social scientist and Deputy Director of the Volkshochschule Osnabrück.
Johannes Hartkemeyer is a social scientist as well and Director of the Volkshochschule Osnabrück.

Contents: György Széll/Carl-Heinrich Bösling/Johannes Hartkemeyer: Foreword - Hans-Gert Pöttering: European Perspectives - Opening Speech - Heinz-Hermann Witte: Lower-Saxonian Perspectives - Speech - György Széll: Labour, Globalisation and The New Economy - Kevin Doogan: Job Insecurity and Long-term Employment in Europe - Yunus A. Dauda: Labour Relations in a Changing Globalised World: The ECOWAS Experience - Debi S. Saini: Labour Power in the New Economy: Perspectives in the Global and Indian Contexts - Renate Schröder: Journalism in Europe and the Global Market - Richard L. Harris: The 'New Economy', Enron, and California's Energy Crisis - Julia Rozanova: Welfare State is Dead - Long Live Welfare Corporation? The Cases of Russian Companies - Francesca Degiuli: The Development of Temporary Work in Italy: Or How Flexibility Becomes Routine - Roy Green: Structural Reform and Labour Markets in Europe: The Case of Ireland - Jan de Leede/Jan Kees Looise: Decentralisation and Individualisation of Employment Relations? The Dutch Example - Dietrich Brandt/Stefan Frank/Francesco Garibaldo/Ellen Olbertz: Initiating Knowledge Management, Learning and Innovation Processes - Experiences of the All-German Project SENEKA in its European Context - Anup Dash: The Social Economy of Self-help Groups - Liana Carleial/Maria Lucia de Figueiredo Gomes Filha/Lafaiete Santos Neves: The Role of Institutions in the Preparation of Industrial Workforce in the Automotive Sector of the State of Parana (Brazil): Limits and Possibilities - Maria Matey-Tyrowicz: The Tripartite Social Dialogue in Poland after the Law of July 2001 on the Tripartite Commission - Stephan Cludts/Olaf Fisscher/Jan Kees Looise/André Nijhof: Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility; a Self-evaluation Method of Embedding Codes of Conduct - Volker Telljohann: The European Works Councils - Levels of Interaction and Problems of Functioning - Stefan Rüb/Torsten Müller: From European to World Works Councils? The Development of World Works Councils and other Forms of Global Employee Representation in Transnational Undertakings - Heiner Köhnen: The Role of Transnational Workers' Co-operation in the Field of Codes of Conduct - Göran Brulin/Eskil Ekstedt: Forming Relations and Cluster Dynamics - Rainer Dombois/Erhard Hornberger/Jens Winter: Transnational Labour Regulation in the NAFTA - A Problem of Institutional Design? The Case of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation between the USA, Mexico and Canada - Kevin P. O'Kelly: Financial Participation: Seeking a European Consensus - Otto Jacobi: In Search of Concepts - The World Social Forum in Porto Alegre - Juan Monreal: Training, Management Culture and Regional Development - Carmina Pérez Pérez: Education/Training in the Society of Knowledge and Technological Innovation - Antônio Inácio Andrioli: Collective Labour and Education: A Study on Co-operative Experiences with Pupils in Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil - Reinhard Sliwka: Local Strategic Methods for the Integration of Migrants in Osnabrück - Juan Monreal: Politics, Economy and Society in the Era of Globalisation.