0 the relationships between companies and their workers --
1 the relationships between employees and employers, including whether employees are happy with their pay and working conditions: --
A co-operative approach to the organization of work within the firm will improve industrial relations.
The history of industrial relations in the UK demonstrates the scope for conflict between employer and employee.
For one thing, it had become, by the early 1930s, the crucible of very explosive industrial relations in the textile industry.
Specialists in labor economics and industrial relations have remained interested in the program.
Today there is greater reluctance to use labour law to fortify collective industrial relations institutions.
Ostensibly, the purpose of, indeed justification for, this intervention was to restore healthy industrial relations.
State intervention in the area of industrial relations remains more pronounced than in other advanced industrial countries.
The line to be drawn was the now familiar one between industrial relations and 'an arrangement within a family or social context'.
Bargaining with unions provided the least unacceptable means of stabilizing industrial relations, and provided a means of limiting labor's influence in the workplace.
Government officials' efforts were highly contested, especially by employers, but, over time, a convergence of organizational interests in managing the new industrial relations developed.
