According to Elvander (2002:):
"Industrial relations (or labour market relations) emerged as a multi-disciplinary
field of research in Great Britain and the USA about one hundred years ago.
However, it took nearly half a century for research and teaching within this broad
field to really gain momentum. As a distinct academic discipline, industrial
relations (IR) is primarily an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon. It is only since World
War II that a corresponding multi-disciplinary treatment of the complex of
problems pertaining to the employment relationship, albeit under different labels
and in other organizational forms, has emerged in continental Europe as well as
Scandinavia and Japan."
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The Writer according to Magnusson (2002):
"The topic of this essay written by Professor Emeritus Nils Elvander – one of
the most prominent scholars in this particular field in the world – is to present an
historic outline of the sub-discipline of Industrial Relations. One striking feature
of this historical sequence is of course how connected the field of industrial
relations has been to the development of industrial society at large and the
shifting power relationships between labour and capital. During the early 20th
century a tri-partite structure was developed on the basis of the First and Second
Industrial Revolutions including the trade unions, the employer organisations and
the state. This once so strong structure has gradually been dissolved as the
Second industrial society has been transformed into the Third industrial revolution
during recent decades. As a consequence, also the sub-discipline of Industrial
Relations has changed face. What it will turn to in the future is not the main
topic of this historical essay, but it nevertheless gives much food for such reflections
which is necessary in order to re-establish and re-new interest in Industrial
Relations as a theoretical and intellectual undertaking also in the future."
Mari Membaca
PROGRAM HUBUNGAN INDUSTRI UMS Industrial and Employment Relations UMS
