labour relations
labour relationsLabour relations, or industrial relations as it is known in Britain, is the interdisciplinary and somewhat diffuse study of the institutions and rule-fixing processes of the labour-market. Its core subject-matter has always been collective bargaining between trade unions or analogous organizations of employees, on one hand, and employers and their associations on the other. A widening of scope has been evident for some years however, as a result of the need to put dealings between organized labour and employers into their legal, historical, economic, political, and sociological contexts. The term ‘employee relations’, found increasingly in management writing, was once a synonym for industrial relations; it now usually denotes parts of the field in which management–trade union relationships either play a smaller role or are...
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