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In the first collection of its kind, The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management brings together contributions from leading, international scholars in an accessible, comprehensive and influential collection that combines both global and interdisciplinary perspectives. An indispensable resource for advanced students and researchers in the field, the Handbook focuses on familiarizing the reader with the fundamentals of applied human resource management while contextualizing practice within wider theoretical considerations. Internationally minded chapters combine a critical overview with discussion of key debates and research, plus comprehensively dealing with important emerging interests.
Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining
Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining
What are industrial relations (IR)? The pioneers of the field tended to use the term in a broad and interdisciplinary sense. Then, the term covered the practice and study of all aspects of work and employment. The field has been developed from the work of Fabians Sydney and Beatrice Webb (1894, 1897) in Britain and institutional economists such as John R. Commons (1909, 1934) in the USA. On both sides of the Atlantic these public intellectuals and their associates were searching for ways to understand and influence IR in ways that distinguished their normative, theoretical, and methodological approaches from Marx (1849) on the one hand and classical or neo-classical economics (Marshall, 1920) on the other.
Since those ...
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