Every industrializing community creates workers and managers, whose status and interrelations need to be defined. Industrial relations are created, and are usually a complex of interrelations between managers, agencies, workers, and government, together making up a system. This pioneering work, first published in 1958 and long out of print, presents a general theory of industrial relations and seeks to provide tools of analysis.A Masterworks in Industrial Relations series book, edited by Albert A. Blum, Michigan State University."

The Role of the State and Industrial Relations', using a comparative approach (the European Union, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, China, the United States, Brazil, South Africa and India), reconstructs the general framework of global industrial relations considering challenges and future prospects and proposing a new agenda for the state. The new era of industrial relations that has been stealthily changing the world of work in recent decades seems to have reached a stage where it can be systematically monitored and analyzed, in great part because the "creeping renationalization" that has been noted since the financial crisis of 2008 has reinvigorated state intervention in essential economic structures. In the globalized word, with the internationalization of the economy and increasing competitive pressures, industrial relations are developing in new directions. The contributions in this book provide important new perspectives on the many challenges inherent in the present and future of the relationship between industrial relations and the state.

This revised edition of Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice follows the approach established successfully in preceding volumes edited by Paul Edwards. The focus is on Britain after a decade of public policy which has once again altered the terrain on which employment relations develop. Government has attempted to balance flexibility with fairness, preserving light-touch regulation whilst introducing rights to minimum wages and to employee representation in the workplace. Yet this is an open economy, conditioned significantly by developing patterns of international trade and by European Union policy initiatives. This interaction of domestic and cross-national influences in analysis of changes in employment relations runs throughout the volume.

In an important & timely revision of a classic work, John T. Dunlop discusses the transformation of the industrial relations systems of the former Soviet Union. Dunlop has also updated his general theory of industrial relations, describing it as a set of tools for practitioners that can be used to develop new industrial relations systems or to reform existing ones. Since the initial publication of this work in 1958, a substantial literature has grown up around Dunlop's theory, which provides a framework for analyzing & interpreting the vast & growing body of information about labor relations. This book is the inaugural volume in a new series, Harvard Business School Press Classics, which will bring back into print works widely recognized as having significant impact on management practice & research.

This publication examines the history and practice of industrial relations around the world to date, as well as considering potential future prospects and developments. Issues discussed include: early industrial relations in Europe and North America; key aspects that have shaped industrial relations during the post World War II period, including the role and impact of the International Labour Organization and the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA); and modern industrial relations in the United States, Australasia, Canada, the UK, continental Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.

"This enlightening book provides the first systematic introduction to, and exploration of, the emerging system of industrial relations in China, and draws on the authors' extensive research and direct involvement in the developments taking place. The authors argue that there are both unifying and fragmenting elements to the ongoing development of industrial relations, but overall it is one in which the state continues to maintain a major, and direct, influence. Divisions between workers and managers may be escalating with increased open conflicts, but this book reveals that the picture is far more complex and contradictory than to assume that the solution is convergence with western style industrial relations systems. They conclude that industrial relations institutions and processes still act within a political context and with the guiding hand of the Chinese Communist party."