Industrial Relations Under Globalised Economy

Contents: Preface. 1. The arguing for \'industrial relations\': journey to a lost world. 2. Education and employment. 3. Informal labour market and structural devolution. 4. Informal labour in brick kilns. Appendix. Bibliography.

"Human resource management has emerged as an exciting new approach to people management since about the middle of the 1980s, pushing personal management and industrial relation steadily into the background. Books and journals in fashion, university curricula in demand, and practitioners commanding fancy salaries and rising careers have almost by definition to be in HRM. In contract, there are no takers--not in competitive market economics, in any case - for rusty trench warriors putting out industrial relations fires and clinching collective agreements, courses of study that train these eternal firefighters, and research projects chronicling their deeds." (jacket)