Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society

Volume 4, 1993

Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting

The New Social Contract
An International Retrospective Analysis

This paper examines the popular notion that there is a need for the United States to devise a new social contract entailing greater cooperation among labor, management, and government in order to both enhance economic performance and to better deal with troubling social issues. This is examined in the context of a long-term international study of labor, management, and government efforts to promote occupational safety and health in the auto industry. Policy implications of this research are discussed that relate not only to safety and health, but to other corporate social performance issues.