2015
DOI: 10.7202/1033404ar
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Advancing Industrial Relations Theory: An Analytical Synthesis of British-American and Pluralist-Radical Ideas

Abstract: Résumé de l'articleRésuméCertains auteurs de premier plan en relations industrielles (RI) en sont arrivés à la conclusion que notre champ d'étude est en sérieux déclin, en partie à cause du manque d'une théorie de base unificatrice. Le problème de la théorie est accentué du fait que d'autres auteurs considèrent le développement d'une théorie fondatrice des relations industrielles soit impossible, soit non souhaitable. Nous croyons que la production d'une théorie des RI est nécessaire et possible et nous nous p… Show more

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“…a mutual-gain promise of job security is later reneged on by unilateral layoffs). Likewise, even if management in good faith tries to honour the mutualgain compact with workers it may still be forced by external events, such as market boom/bust or fending off a corporate raider, to take actions that break the psychological contract and embitter employment relations (Fox, 1974;Miller, 1991;Thompson, 2003;Bélanger and Edwards, 2007;Kaufman and Gall, 2015).…”
Section: Ers Model: Top Partmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…a mutual-gain promise of job security is later reneged on by unilateral layoffs). Likewise, even if management in good faith tries to honour the mutualgain compact with workers it may still be forced by external events, such as market boom/bust or fending off a corporate raider, to take actions that break the psychological contract and embitter employment relations (Fox, 1974;Miller, 1991;Thompson, 2003;Bélanger and Edwards, 2007;Kaufman and Gall, 2015).…”
Section: Ers Model: Top Partmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Britain and the rest of Europe, the unitarist and market frames (HRM and labor economics) have traditionally not been regarded as within IR per se and, indeed, the two were long perceived as threats to IR pluralism and workers’ interests and thus to be resisted and critiqued (with some relaxation toward HRM in Britain as it has become more pluralist under IR colonization). In the US, after the mass unionization of industry in the 1930s–1940s, the field came to be seen as anchored in the pluralist frame but, opposite to Europe, with more openness and interaction with HRM and labor economics but a closed and oppositional stance toward the critical-radical frame (Kaufman and Gall, 2015). Matters get more complicated because, in recent years and in reaction to union decline, a movement has developed in North America and Britain (but not much visible in the rest of Europe) to expansively define IR as the study of all aspects of employment relationships which, in effect, expands its boundaries to include all four frames (Blyton et al, 2008: Ch.…”
Section: Rethinking Industrial Relations Assessmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This supply curve yields the “break‐even” wage W S , also known as the subsistence, sustainable, or living wage (Stabile ). At this wage, the workers in the middle–lower class segment get just enough income each year to sustain themselves for a lifetime of work and production while all the discretionary surplus goes to the upper strata (Hobson ; Kaufman and Gall ). In orthodox economics, the “surplus‐skimming” nature of this outcome is hidden because all earnings—no matter how high due to socially structured supply curves—are portrayed as a marginal product payment for individual contribution to production.…”
Section: The State and The Market System: Model Developedmentioning
confidence: 99%