Industrial Relations

Industrial relations as a field of study within the social sciences, embraces forms of regulation other than collective bargaining, and particularly, the law and unilateral rule making by management or work groups. Nonetheless, public policy and much academic study in the post-war period was centred on trade unions, as collective bargaining was widely seen as a vital means by which the benefits of productivity growth could be distributed in a fair way, while in the wider political arena trade un