Elements In a Theory of Industrial Relations

Elements In a Theory of Industrial Relations

This book is based on lecture series marking the 150th anniversary of the chair of political economy at trinity college Dublin, one of the oldest in British Isles. This book is concerned with law and industrial relations. It does not follow the normal pattern of the debate, which appears to have reached a considerable impasse; rather does it attempt to put the questions in a different way. It does this by analyzing not merely the law as it stands and applying it to industrial relations but also by exploring a deeper problem. What those engaged in industrial relations believes to be right, to be appropriate, and on the basis of such analysis to identify those rules of conduct which are generally agreed and could well form the basis for law and those rules which carry no such general legitimacy and are doomed to failure. In this way, expectations are made clearer, and areas are identified where progress may be made.

Charles McCarthy

Irish Academic Press 

1984

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