Examines the history, contemporary practice, and policy issues of non-union employee representation in the USA and Canada. The text encompasses many organizational devices that are organized for the purposes of representing employees on a range of production, quality, and employment issues.

1: Introduction; 1: History: The United States and Canada; 2: Accomplishments and Shortcomings of Nonunion Employee Representation in the Pre–Wagner Act Years: A Reassessment; 3: The AFL and the Challenge of Company Unionism, 1915–1937; 4: A Road Not Taken: Independent Local Unions in the United States Since 1935; 5: Company Unionism in Canada 1915–1948; 6: Portrait of Nonunion Employee Representation in Canada: History, Law, and Contemporary Plans; 2: Theory; 7: An Economic Analysis of Employee Representation; 8: Nonunion Representational Forms: An Organizational Behavior Perspective; 9: Nonunion Employee Representation: A Legal/Policy Perspective; 3: Contemporary Practice; 10: Estimates of Nonunion Employee Representation in the United States and Canada: How Different Are the Two Countries?; 11: Contemporary Experience with the Rockefeller Plan: Imperial Oil's Joint Industrial Council; 12: Nonunion Employee Involvement and Participation Programs: The Role of Employee Representation and the Impact of the NLRA; 13: Do Employee Participation Groups Violate Section 8(a)(2) of the National Labor Relations Act? An Empirical Analysis; 14: Employee Involvement and Representation in Nonunion Firms: What Canadian Employers Do and Why?; 15: Advancing Public-Sector Labor-Management Relations Through Consultation: The Role of the National Joint Council of the Public Service of Canada; 16: The Effectiveness of Diversity Networks in Providing Collective Voice for Employees; 4: International Perspectives; 17: Nonunion Representation in Germany; 18: Nonunion Employee Representation in Japan; 19: Nonunion Forms of Employee Representation in the United Kingdom and Australia; 5: Practitioner Commentary: Employers; 20: Employee Involvement and Section 8(a)(2): EFCO Manufacturing; 21: Operation of the Production District Joint Industrial Council, Imperial Oil; 22: Nonunion Employee Representation at Dofasco; 6: Practitioner Commentary: Employees; 23: Delta Personnel Board Council; 24: Production District Joint Industrial Council at Imperial Oil Ltd.: The Perspective from the Employee's Side; 25: Nonunion Employee Representation at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; 7: Practitioner Commentary: Labor Attorney; 26: The Section 8(a)(2) Debate: A Management Attorney's Perspective; 8: Practitioner Commentary: Organized Labor; 27: My Experience with Unionization of Nonunion Employee Representation Plans in Canada *; 28: Employer-Employee Committees: A Union Perspective; 9: Policymaker Commentary; 29: Electromation: An Opportunity Lost or Just Postponed?; 30: A Canadian Policymaker's Perspective on Nonunion Representation; 10: Conclusion; 31: Nonunion Employee Representation: Findings and Conclusions