Industrial Relations and Health Services (1982) provides a comparative treatment of labour and industrial relations in health services in Canada, Britain and the USA. The differences between the systems in these three countries illuminate the particular responses and policies that need to be made in varying circumstances.

Part 1. Labour and Health Care: Introduction 1. Industrial Relations in the Health Sector A.S. Sethi and S.J. Dimmock 2. Health Sector Labour Market: Canada, USA and UK M. Gunderson Part 2. Labour Movement 3. The Labour Movement in Health Care: Canada R. Sykes and A.S. Sethi 4. The Labour Movement in Health Care: USA C. Schoen 5. The Labour Movement in the National Health Service (NHS): UK M. Carpenter Part 3. Legislation 6. Legislation Governing Health Industrial Relations: Canada C. Steinberg 7. Legislation Governing Health Industrial Relations: USA T.C. McKinney and M. Levine 8. Legislation Governing Industrial Relations in the National Health Service: UK S.D. Alderman, J.H. Angel and R. Mailly Part 4. Collective Bargaining Experience 9. Structural Issue of Centralised Bargaining in Health Services: Canada, USA and UK G. Adams, D. Beatty and M. Gunderson 10. Collective Bargaining Among Nurses: Canada, USA and UK A.S. Sethi, G. Rowsell, N. Solomon and M. Carpenter 11. Collective Bargaining Among Non-professional and Allied Professional Employees in the Health Sector A.S. Sethi, R.H. Stansel, N. Solomon and S.J. Dimmock 12. Bargaining Strategies Among Physicians: Canada, USA and UK E.J. Moran, T.A. Barocci and S.J. Dimmock Part 5. Conflict Resolution 13. Conflict Resolution: the Canadian Experience W.P. Kelly 14. Dispute Resolution Methods A.V. Subbarao 15. Role of Arbitration in Health Sector Dispute Settlement: Canada, USA and UK L. Harnden Part 6. Policy 16. Effect of Incomes Policy on Health Industrial Relations in Canada F. Reid 17. Incomes Policy and Health Services in the UK S.J. Dimmock 18. Effect of Incomes Policies on the Health Care Industrial Relations System in the USA R. Santos and I.B. Helburn 19. Health Industrial Relations: A Concluding Observation A.S. Sethi and S.J. Dimmock