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Introduction: What future for industrial relations?
Author(s) -
HAYTER Susan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2015.00220.x
Subject(s) - industrial relations , premise , scholarship , context (archaeology) , work (physics) , representation (politics) , labor relations , power (physics) , political science , selection (genetic algorithm) , sociology , economic system , economics , political economy , law and economics , law , engineering , epistemology , computer science , geography , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , politics , archaeology , artificial intelligence
In her introductory paper, the coordinator of this Special Issue puts the selection of subsequent contributions into context. Traditional industrial relations institutions, born of labour law's premise of unbalanced power relations between the worker and the employer, are being undermined by unprecedented global changes in patterns of work and forms of employment. This trend, compounded by the emergence of alternative forms of worker representation, poses a major challenge not only to conventional tradeunionism but also to policy and to industrial relations scholarship. This Special Issue is intended as a contribution to the ensuing, ongoing debate about the direction of future change.