1. Entrepreneurs, Managers and Business Men in Eighteenth-century Britain / Peter Mathias -- 2. Labour and the Process of Industrialization in the First Phases of British Industrialization / Peter Mathias -- 3. Women and Work in Britain, c.1870-World War I / Pat Thane -- 4. 'In Want of Union': Industrial Relations in the Early Twentieth-century Pottery Industry / Richard Whipp -- 5. Management, Labour and the State in France 1871-1939: Industrial Relations in the Third Republic / Roger Magraw -- 6. Entrepreneurs and Economic Growth: the Case of Italy / John A. Davis -- 7. Industrial Workers, Employers and the State in Nazi Germany 1933-1945 / Stephen Salter -- 8. Employers and Workers in Japan Between the Wars / Takao Matsumura -- 9. The Struggle for Control of the American Workplace 1920-1985 / P. K. Edwards