Gewerkschaften und Arbeitsbeziehungen in der Republik Irland (Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in the Republic of Ireland) by Wolfgang Weinz, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt/M Bern New York Nancy, pp. 218, price SFr 48. The Republic of Ireland differs greatly with regard to its industrial relations from German-speaking countries. In the research field, at least in the recent past, a more pronounced discussion of this field has developed in Ireland compared to the Federal Republic of Germany, where there is neither a “College of Industrial Relations” nor a corresponding department in a Commerce Faculty, nor even an equivalent term for this research discipline. The actual structuring of industrial relations in the FRG however is constituted by a multiple network of laws, collective agreements and decisions by the Labour Courts which are legal binding norms. As such, industrial relations in the Federal Republic is much more codified and integrated into the legal system than in English- speaking countries.