scholarly journals The Role of the State in Industrial Relations: A Comment

2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Bryan M. Downie
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Labour Legislation ◽  
Canadian Public Policy

In this paper, the author takes issues with comments by Sack and Lee that changes to British Columbia's labour legislation represent retrenchment in Canadian public policy in labour relations. In discussing the issue, he draws on the experience with a similar approach in Ontario.

scholarly journals The Role of the State in Canadian Labour Relations.

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Sack ◽  
Tanya Lee
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Role Of The State

The authors examine the role of the State in industrial relations in Canada. They address themselves particularly to the questions in which circumstances and to what extent the State should intervene.

scholarly journals Working for the State in the Urban Economies of Ankara, Bursa, and Salonica: From Empire to Nation State, 1840s–1940s

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (S24) ◽  
pp. 213-241
Author(s):  
M. Erdem Kabadayi
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The City ◽  
Of Greece

AbstractIn most cases, and particularly in the cases of Greece and Turkey, political transformation from multinational empire to nation state has been experienced to a great extent in urban centres. In Ankara, Bursa, and Salonica, the cities selected for this article, the consequences of state-making were drastic for all their inhabitants; Ankara and Bursa had strong Greek communities, while in the 1840s Salonica was the Jewish metropolis of the eastern Mediterranean, with a lively Muslim community. However, by the 1940s, Ankara and Bursa had lost almost all their non-Muslim inhabitants and Salonica had lost almost all its Muslims. This article analyses the occupational structures of those three cities in the mid-nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, tracing the role of the state as an employer and the effects of radical political change on the city-level historical dynamics of labour relations.

scholarly journals Moments of Rupture. Changing the State Project for Teachers: a Regulation Approach Study in Education Industrial Relations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Patricia Gay Simpkin
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Early Response ◽  
The State ◽  
National State ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Government ◽  
Professional Project

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to examine the response of secondary school teachers to the Tomorrow's Schools education reforms. Their early response was made largely through their union, the Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA), in an industrial relations setting as the reform proposals were in development and taking their final shape. The interaction between the professional project of these teachers with the proposed reforms produced an outcome for secondary school education shaped by the interaction, rather than just by the reforms themselves. A case study situated at the intersection of industrial relations, state sector and education restructurings during the period 1984-1989 is the focus of the thesis. The argument is located within French regulationalist theory. The concept of the Keynesian Welfare National State provides a means for connecting education as part of the mode of regulation with the role of the state in New Zealand. The Fourth Labour Government entered into a political project that shifted the role of the state in the economy and society. The roots of the project lay in the discourse of economic rationalism. Policy resulting from this discourse was put into operation through legislation affecting all parts of the state. In education, the discourse of economic rationalism introduced a new approach, the values of which were at odds with those of the previous education settlement of the Keynesian Welfare National State. The object of the thesis is to trace the process of change within the secondary schools sector of education through the years 1984-1989 as the two different sets of values interacted. The assumption is made that institutional change results from a dynamic interaction between new ideas and continuities and discontinuities with the past. This allows for the possibility of the effects of agency on public policy. Analysis focuses on a series of industrial negotiations between the PPTA and the State Services Commission, the negotiating body for government. They took place as various government policy documents and resulting legislation altered the positioning of teachers within the state. The negotiations were of such a character that the educational discourses of economic rationalism and the education settlement of the Keynesian Welfare National State came into conflict and were debated at length. The thesis concludes that, by the end of the negotiations and despite the introduction of legislation on education, the values of secondary teachers remained substantially unchanged and in opposition to the intent of the government reforms.</p>

The architecture of modern anti-unionism in Canada: Class struggle and the erosion of workers’ collective freedoms

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-481
Author(s):  
Charles Smith ◽  
Andrew Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Labour Legislation ◽  
The Relationship

Over the past four decades, governments have backed away from the promotion of collective bargaining in Canada resulting in a tendency towards anti-unionism. Examining this new reality, this article investigates two interrelated trends in Canadian anti-unionism over the last two decades in an effort to conceptualize the role of the state in regulating labour relations. First, we investigate legislative attempts to undermine or eliminate the ability of workers to collectively bargain and strike. Second, the article unpacks the political economy of anti-unionism in the private sector by focusing on the role of lobby groups that have shaped labour legislation. These two interrelated threads allow us to expose the relationship between employers and governments, which has threatened the strength of organized labour in the private and public sector and shaped a uniquely Canadian anti-unionism. Finally, we conclude by examining both the strengths and limitations of the unique fight-back strategies used by the labour movement, which has sought to elevate aspects of Canadian labour law to be protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This, we argue, offers restrictive possibilities for advancing collective bargaining rights in the existing labour relations framework.

Neoliberalism, capitalist growth models, and the state: An agenda for industrial relations theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Howell
Keyword(s):  
Growth Models ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Class Power ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

The liberalization of industrial relations has become a generalized phenomenon in advanced capitalist societies. This raises at least three issues that are the subject of this review. First, what is the balance between continuity and change in industrial relations? Second, what is driving change, and in particular, what role is played by shifts in capitalist growth models that have taken place over the last three decades? Third, what does this tell us about the role of political regulation in industrial relations change? This review suggests that scholars need to rethink the role of industrial relations institutions, specifically their ability to shape and mitigate the impact of broad transformations in types of economic growth and the balance of class power. It argues that liberalization of industrial relations and the instability of emerging capitalist growth models highlight the centrality of political regulation and the role of the state in market-making and institution-building.

Diagnoses

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Keyword(s):  
Personnel Management ◽  
State Government ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Industrial Culture ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Internal Trade

Creation of an industrial culture is always a slow and difficult process, especially for high-tech industries in backward areas. In such circumstances, what is the role of the state government and the management in creating this culture? What parameters should be used to evaluate demands for wage rise? These are some of the questions that the diagnostic case, The Bajaj Lockout, raises. The casewriter and other experts from the academic and the practising worlds provide us their diagnoses of the case. To promote and foster healthy industrial relations, Kher emphasizes the need to educate the workers in fair negotiation practices while Shelat elaborates on the role of the state government in ensuring an ideal industrial climate. Joseph highlights the role of systematic grievance handling procedures whereas Sarkar observes that faulty recruitment policy combined with the promotion of an internal trade union are sure indicators of deficient personnel management. Removing barriers to communication: between workers and the manageme~t and introducing participative rrianagament will contribute to better industrial relations concludes Saha.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT MECHANISMS IN NIGERIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Anthony Ideh DUMEBI ◽  
Adedoyinsola Olajumoke SHONUGA,
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The State ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Industrial Dispute ◽  
Industrial Disputes

Disputes and dispute resolutions are part and parcel of any functional industrial relations system. Therefore, the need to resolve them equitably, efficiently and effectively for the benefit of the actors is of paramount importance. The objective of this study is to examine the State intervention in dispute settlement and its contributions in peaceful resolution of disputes in Nigeria. The paper adopted the qualitative research approach. Relevant data were collected from the Lagos offices of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, the Industrial Arbitration Panel and the National Industrial Court. The study found that the various pieces of legislation enacted by the State have positively impacted on the settlement of Industrial Disputes in Nigeria. However, it was observed that despite the positive contributions, there are still some areas for improvement. The study therefore made the following recommendations; that the powers of the Minister of Labour and Employment should be restricted to create an enabling industrial relations environment for the actors and that the parties to disputes should be allowed the choice of which method of disputes settlement to use among other recommendations.

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