This article presents information regarding the book "Strikes in the UK, Other European Countries and the USA," by Kenneth Walsh. International studies of industrial disputes are all too rare despite the considerable interest in comparisons of strike activity across countries. This new book by Kenneth Walsh, Research Fellow at the Institute of Manpower Studies, attempts to fill this gap. It provides a thorough analysis and explanation of the measurement systems in use in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Great Britain as well as the U.S. There are individual chapters on each. There is also an examination of the efforts at an international level to co-ordinate the measurement systems in different countries. As far back as 1926 the International Labour Office considered the problem and issued a series of recommendations on what should be collected. But little has been done since and we are left with an uncoordinated series of statistics with no two countries of the nine covered in this book actually compiling their statistics of strikes on a similar basis.